Quotes About Emotion

Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart.

When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

Not all wounds are the bleeding kind

Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened.

She turned to him, shook her head. Her black hair tossed, and the beams of the late-afternoon sunlight played upon it, sending brief ripples of red and green and blue through it the same way that light, shimmering on the black surface of oil, creates short-lived, wriggling rainbows.

it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart.

If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place for me in her life.

What's gotten into you today? All evening

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

When it reached him, the dog settled on its belly, then rolled onto its back with all four legs in the air, making itself vulnerable. It gave him a look that was full of love, trust, and a little fear. Crazily

But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.

Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

Amazement and astonishment express the momentary overwhelming of the mind by something beyond expectation. Amazement is an emotional response, astonishment an intellectual one.

GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT

I knew what love felt like, for I had loved Father and, less powerfully

She lived to love and to receive love, which is the condition of angels.

Tenderness is false mercy. It's easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.

Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog had meant to him, his chest grew tight with emotion.

Now, Gunner takes her call, as though they had spoken only yesterday

Denial endures because it soothes.

I get the phlegm of fear in my throat again, thicker than before, and I have to keep swallowing hard to be able to breathe right. Don't ask about my heart. It's just thudding like some pneumatic hammer.