Quotes About Emotion

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Women must be weak to love a baby enough to hold it to their breast. Women's hearts must be weak to sacrifice for their children. Women must be weak to take the seed of the man. Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman's words are lies." 

C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.

This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always make her feel. There is something dependable, unfailing in this sort of sadness.

what other published works often ignore: the critical role played by the limbic system

That first loving kiss, the one that comes out of you from the source of your personal river, and the one that comes from her that is the same, there's never another moment like it; never another flame that burns so hot. It can never be that good again, ever. All manner of goodness can come after, but it's different. And that's a good thing, because if we burned that hot for too long, we'd be nothing but ash.

I simply allowed myself to be guided by whatever feeling was welling up and directing me.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

I am not here to think, but to be, feel, live!...Heart! Warmth! Blood! Humanity! Life!

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Love can sometimes rise up like a desperate cry from a neglected part of oneself which takes a long view but which is submerged by the presence of strident wants.

Love is a command; but friendship is a choice.

Without friendship love becomes immobile and even irrelevant.

Friendship is a relationship for spirits.

Her mouth tasted of smoke and toothpaste and something feety that made my blood flare

There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it

What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

Tal vez el amor no nace ahí, no en un repentino arrebato de passion, sino en el reconocimiento y la sencilla aceptación de, de algo que no sé qué es

of her blood. Oh, I do not say these are

Przesz?o?? bije we mnie niczym drugie serce.

Love, I have always found, is most intense when its object is unworthy of it.

For even at such a tender age I knew that there is always a lover and a loved, and knew which one, in this case, I would be.