Quotes About Emotion

It was that palpable sense of presence shoved up against the reality of absence, like hot against cold, that really threatened to buckle the whole mass.

I submit that style, too, is an answer to a common want; but not so much to formulated problems as to felt difficulties of an emotional kind. . . . Style is fundamentally a pose, a stance, at times a self delusion, by which the people of any period meet the particular dilemmas of their day.

Growing heated as he talks about the lost opportunity, Balsillie stops and bows his head. Rubbing a clenched fist back and forth across his forehead, as if trying to remove some hidden stain, he ends the conversation. "I must not go back to the life of commerce," he says.

Attachments are attractions we feel toward objects or people that we believe have brought us pleasure

Aversion, the feeling of repulsion for certain objects or events that we believe bring discomfort, is attachment in reverse

Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.

A man is never old if he can still be moved emotionally by a woman of his own age.

If one would find peace, he must come out of passion.

Chocolate releases phenylephylamine, the same hormone that is released when you fall in love.

Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.

I hate having sex with people I don't love

Humans are great storytellers. That's what separates us from every other species.

If a piece of writing is not hard, it's weak. It's not worth writing. It's not worth sharing. If it's not hard, it's soft. If you can't BLEED or KILL or SLASH YOUR GUTS with your word, then keep it to yourself.

ABS—Always Be Storytelling.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.

It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mark of cruelty.

I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni's room.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.