Quotes About Emotion

You don't need to control emotion," he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world!

You Don't need a reason to be happy. If you do that reason can be taken away.

Act happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell.

beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.

The right hemisphere was not without some language—but only the most emotionally charged units of communication could lodge in that affective hemisphere; my vocabulary was now down to nine words. (This, I learned later, was exceptional, many victims of CVAs retain only two or three.) For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo;

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

But love...of whom? I say at last. Of what? What great passion would forestall death? Her graceful eyebrow arches, You do not know? You, a poet? I do not know. I say as much. She leans forward so that I can hear the rustle of her starched cotton blouse and silk beneath. Our faces are so close that I can feel the warmth from her skin. Then you need more time to learn, she whispers, her voice as filled with emotion as when she cried out last night.

The best lack all conviction," he thought, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.

eyes too filled with the sharp edge of experience to hide their pain...

Romantico nel significato peggiore del termine, cioè contrassegnato da ideali melensi o insipidi che soltanto un'adolescente, o una società adolescente, potevano coltivare.

Thinking none of this but feeling all of it

it's the mind analogy that bothers Crozier the most. Haunted and plagued by melancholia much of his life, knowing it as a secret weakness made worse by his twelve winters frozen in arctic darkness as an adult, feeling it recently triggered into active agony by Sophia Cracroft's rejection

Sarai gripped his hand. "Do you think you're the only one who has had the dream?" "Dream?" managed Sol. She

The best lack all conviction," he thought, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Dur

If love is the answer, what was the question?

El amor es solo lujuria mal escrita, habría dicho Quirón

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

There are a few people who will feel her touch—a chill up a spine, a hand in the air, a poem recalled—even if they won't exactly know it.

I can't stand seeing their sympathy. For years, vital parts of me have been frozen, and since the accident I felt myself thawing, dripping, becoming more human than I can bear.