Quotes About Emotion

I want to write you the kind of letter you always wrote to me.

For little girls, their first love should always be their dad, but that isn't always the case.

And while it may be normal to feel guilty, it's also important to remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.

Sentía tal admiración por ella que era hasta incapaz de expresarlo en palabras.

No necesito a nadie —susurró él con la voz rasgada.

That is the first time you said my name and I like it.

Ya que entonces, después de todo, conocía la verdadera naturaleza del romance y sabía que tenía muy poco que ver con intentar crear una fantasía. El romance real era espontáneo, impredecible.

Nadie ha erigido un monumento en mi honor y mi nombre pronto caerá en el olvido, pero he amado a una persona con toda el alma, y con eso me basta.

The heart wants what it wants.

remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.

And while I tossed and turned, it dawned on me that love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

L'amore era il sentimento più potente, perché ti rendeva vulnerabile di fronte alla possibilità di perdere tutto ciò che importava davvero.

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.

THE TEARS ... streamed down, and I let them flow as freely as they would, making of them a pillow for my heart. On them it rested. -AUGUSTINE, Confessions IX, i z

You know the way Jesus rips open his shirt to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny, the way he points to it. I'm afraid the way I'll miss you will be this obvious.

Human beings are millions of things in one day.

Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.

I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I've found her.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.