Quotes About Emotion

The directness of his stare suggests her every word matters to him, and she feels that she has his sincere sympathy rather than unwanted pity.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

Libby believes that she hears her mother's voice submerged in the louder shriek

Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway.

By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. —James Thurber

I despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn't even see it.

A fear that makes you shrink from the prospect of any further such experience is matched by a compulsion to see more and to understand.

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

If we're guided only or even largely by emotion . . . Well, the heart often wants what it doesn't really need, and sometimes it wants what it shouldn't have, something with the potential to ruin your life. It wants something so intensely that we find it easy to do what the heart wants even if we know it's reckless.

not spoken in the yearning tone of a mother for her daughter

AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL

There was a time to take refuge in the arms of those you loved, and there was a time to stand up to great evil and be not bowed. If you didn't know the difference, then you were doomed to perish about two-thirds of the way through the story, when the narrative needed a jolt of violence and emotion.

Men are often made stupid by love.

the heart is deceitful above all things.

Once you've loved someone, the love is always there, even after they're gone.

Love is the only thing that endures.

As he cried out in tremulous and wordless horror, she put her arms around him, her secret friend, and held him tight. Although he was older than her, she heard herself saying, "Sweet boy, dear boy, my child, my friend, I'll never abandon you.

Needless to say, I had not enjoyed such an exhilarating dream in decades.

From time to time he heard himself whimpering in grief. Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.

The woman in the hallway looks like Sarah, except she appears to be scared shitless

despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from

We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.

I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page