Quotes About Emotion

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Tears are for happiness.

There is no explaining why you love the people who belonged to you. No explaining why you couldn't be objective about them, or indifferent to their disapproval. They are woven into your soul with millions of threads, and cutting them out would make you bleed...

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

You do somethin' for me? Go tell Twink I'll meet her at the old grove Tuesday about dusk-dark." Jody was frozen. He burst out, "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'.

He is not my father." "So said every unhappy daughter.

You're my wife," he replied, but behind those words, in his eyes, I knew what that really meant was, You're my friend, and I love you. The

Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

right" in the sense of homoerotic weepiness that Middle America could get behind. Of course I'm talking about "The Deer Hunter.

Orar con fervor es algo que va mucho más allá de decir palabras: es sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does

William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

The central argument is not that higher education is all wrong, but that it is only half right. Our predominant pedagogical system — rational, hierarchical, individualistic, and well-ordered — often ignores aspects of the self relating to emotion, mischievous subversion, social engagement, and creative disorder.

The only difference between death and love, one supposedly lasts forever, the other makes you think of classical music.

Poetry exists to find words for what resists easy naming; we are most often driven to write it or read it when any other sort of language seems incapable of the work required.

It thrills me that I don't know why; the fact that poems do things they should not be able to do, through means not fully apprehensible--well, it makes me treasure them all the harder.

It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.

Rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.

One of the greatest joys to me is making every single person in the audience laugh and forget their worries.

Emotion had no place in the virtual world, where logical, ruthless intellect prevailed.

if he could take Elizabeth Brice to orgasm just once—just freaking once!—her indifferent attitude toward him would instantly morph into extreme love.

Sometimes when you're really scared, your amygdala instantly shuts out your higher brain, causing you to act on primitive instinct. Most of the time, however, the amygdala sizes up a situation before making its

intervene before the amygdala hits the boiling point, and the person's higher brain can stay in control.