Quotes About Emotion

The trick is not to find the story of the century. You won't miss that story when it happens. No one will miss it. The trick is to find the story of the day and for that day make whoever reads it or hears it care about it so intensely that it doesn't leave them. Then it becomes a story of their life. Maybe even the story of their life.

This is what happens when the Narrative takes over. Things quit making sense. The laws of physics take a coffee break. People stop thinking logically and start thinking dramatically.

The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness.

I love her more than I actually express in words—an irony for a writer—and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.

Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations.

I don't appreciate the suggestion that I'm acting irrationally," he said. "Then don't act irrationally

What the hell?" she asked, after a moment. "Lovely," Wilson said, looking at the display. "And by 'lovely,' I mean 'Oh, crap.

Total Eclipse of the Heart

How can you say goodbye to someone who is a part of you?

player hummed for a second, then sweet sad acoustic guitar filled the air, arpeggiated cascades that transformed the cramped space of the room. The voice that followed was smoky and haunting, filled with loss:

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is.

He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Go through the motions, Adam." "What motions?" "Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

He wanted to say something beautiful, I think.

There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.

And the hatred was deep in the eyes of the people, beneath the surface.