Quotes About Emotion

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

Così sosteneva Jerry, e così era andata. La teoria di Jerry è che lo Svedese è buono, cioè passivo, cioè uno che cerca sempre di fare le cose giuste: un carattere socialmente controllato che non esplode mai, non cede mai all'ira. Non avendo la rabbia al passivo, non l'ha neppure all'attivo. Secondo questa teoria , è la mancanza di rabbia che finisce per uccidere.

Ordinarily my mother drew no strength from scorn

Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

Nessuno dei pezzi di musica seria che aveva ascoltato per tutta la vita adulta gli dava la stessa emozione che ora provava ascoltando il vecchio swing: -Quel po' di stoicismo che ho dentro se ne va, e il desiderio di non morire, di non morire mai, si fa quasi insopportabile.

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only I did.... Only I cracked, alone, later in the one place in our house where I knew I could go to be apart from the living and all that they cannot not do.

Actually, we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them - at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them

Mario loves Hal so much it makes his heart beat hard.

he cannot close his eyes without being subjected to the diplopic double image of his lover's steady, supplicating and aging (!?) eyes, and then his own eyes vertical above her, darting from side to side, more concerned with how he is seen than with what he sees.

the depressed person was frightened for herself, for as it were "[her]self "—i.e. for her own so-called "character" or "spirit" or as it were "soul

Everyone around us could see the way Lyndon hung on the sound of his wife's voice, saw the tiny curtsies, her social motions, as though each movement of Lady Bird gently burst a layer of impediment between her and him.

emergence of the depressed person's Inner Child and a cathartic tantrum

I went to her for comfort and found her almost hostile. Her eyes were dark and she was silent and trying with every fiber to look Unhappy.

The single most important thing I have learned in over thirty years of study of how love produces healing is that love is transformational only when it is received in vulnerability.

Hatred is like a plague. It is all-consuming, and it springs from man to man.

Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache.

A man is only as strong as that which makes him angry.

No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is.

Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong.

Because love cannot be discussed objectively.

You were listening to the music as deeply as anyone I've ever seen. I was so happy for you that day-because you'd discovered something all your own. And I was so glad it was something I could give to you.

think I loved my Danny more. And I think I know why.

If the laughter is canned, so are you.