Quotes About Emotion

brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.

But a person's smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.

I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.

Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.

The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon.

You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?

My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.

No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.

The word is "love," the story tells her, but she says No, that is nonsense. "Love" is a four-letter word, the story says, but Sally says, No, you are missing the point. There is no word, just words, lots and lots of them, a universe of words, galaxies of them

Don't make me go, Mummy. Please don't make me go.

Emotional scars often run the deepest.

often when we are in the middle of a situation and emotionally involved in it, logic and common sense disappear.

You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

My term "minor feelings" is deeply indebted to theorist Sianne Ngai, who wrote extensively on the affective qualities of ugly feelings, negative emotions—like envy, irritation, and boredom—symptomatic of today's late-capitalist gig economy. Like ugly feelings, minor feelings are "non-cathartic states of emotion" with "a remarkable capacity for duration.

Minor feelings arise, for instance, upon hearing a slight, knowing it's racial, and being told, Oh that's all in your head.

I don't think, therefore I am—I hurt, therefore I am. Therefore, my books are graded on a pain scale. If it's 2, maybe it's not worth telling my story. If it's 10, maybe my book will be a bestseller.

Early on, my father learned that in America, one must be emotionally demonstrative to succeed, so he has a habit of saying "I love you" indiscriminately, to his daughters, to his employees, to his customers, and to airline personnel

She talked about how the circuits of a poetic form are not charged on what you say, but what you hold back. The poem is a net that catches the stutters, the hesitations, rather

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

It was like butterflies on meth in his stomach

now he sensed that she was saying goodbye to him

and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth