Quotes About Emotion

Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.

Love it is that drives and sustains us!' I translate: we don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained. Love is how we call our ignorance of what whips us.

Let your repentance salt my shoe leather, I said presently, and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love.

lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.

Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

That is our 'pointed task. Love & die.

I was deluding myself, for love was one thing but desire was something else entirely.

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.

The last image I had of her was her sitting on the platform at Thorpe as a group of people stared at this distressed, weeping woman, and then her charging towards the glass of my window seat as the train pulled out of the station. I had gasped, thinking she meant to throw herself under the wheels, but no, she had simply wanted to attack me, that was all. If she had got her hands on me, she might have killed me. And I might have let her.

before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

I stared at him and felt the tears forming in my eyes. "Do you know how much I've missed you?" I asked him. "It's been almost thirty years. I shouldn't have had to spend all that time on my own.

She opened her mouth to say something, but when she did she realized that she couldn't find any words to express her surprise, and so she did the only sensible thing she could think of and closed it again.

Por la mejor razón del mundo: Por amor

For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if it didn't make Mother angry, it would probably make Gretel furious, and that would be worse still.

I'm seven,' said Pierrot, sitting up straight, mortally offended.

My great fear when Caden was born was that he would remind me of my brother

Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.

The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.

I see affect or feeling as the primary innate biological motivating mechanism, more urgent than drive deprivation and pleasure and more urgent than physical pain. He goes on to say that without feeling, nothing matters, and with feeling, anything can matter.

With a false self, intimacy is impossible.

shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into shame as a state of being. As a state of being shame takes over one's whole identity. To have shame as an identity is to believe that one's being is flawed, that one is defective as a human being. Once shame is transformed into an identity, it becomes toxic and dehumanizing.

Once an emotion is toxically shame bound, one feels numb. The emotional avoidance is sealed by learning to avoid the avoidance.

Crying when feeling angry is a common female feeling racket.