Quotes About Emotion

Spirited children experience every emotion and sensation deeply and powerfully. Their hearts pound; the adrenaline flows through their bodies. There is actually a physical reaction that occurs more strongly in their bodies than in less intense individuals. They are not loud because they know it irritates people; they are loud because they really feel that much excitement, pain, or whatever the emotion or sensation might be. Their intensity is real. It is their first and most natural reaction.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.

Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

As to "Aesthetic Considerations," Ansel counseled, "A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that subject. The expression must be an emotional amplification, and this emotional amplification relates to point of view, organization, revelation of substance through textures, tonal relations, and the perfection of the technical expression of all these elements."54

Indifference is not caring. Detachment is caring deeply enough to separate.

She was free. Trembling, she found her voice. 'You are hateful,' she whispered. 'Am I? Good. I enjoy being hateful occasionally. Good for the manly image and all that.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

The hands of his sadness close around my throat and I can't breathe. I have run out of the enormous love he needs to be all right.

My most salient memories

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

Singing the blues has always been about alleviating the blues, and that's apparent when you listen to them. Sure is nice to hear that someone else is, or has been where you are, or have been. Because we forget sometimes, that we're all in this together, and we have many, many similar experiences all the time, all across the world, in every age.

Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.

No nap! Mew-eezum!

Ahbearrrrrrrrrrrr!