Quotes About Emotion

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Cooper spun on his heel and walked away. He walked without direction or purpose, without thought or plan. His companions were Frustration and Rage, and together the three of them stalked Manhattan.

Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual killing.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I don't know if he gets all of it, but he loves it anyway, and you don't have to understand everything about something to love it, do you? In fact sometimes that can make you love something more.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Hatred is settled anger.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.

Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

May I never grow so strong that my heart cannot be moved. May I never grow so weak that I fear to speak the truth.

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins

Radford. Miriam's face was animated. She laughed

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

Her mind raced with millions of violent and spectacular thoughts and ideas and in the centre of herself, she stored a passion which might terrify people if they suspected it.