Quotes About Emotion

I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful.

I can blast Son Seals singing Dear Son until the coyotes in the creek raise up a sympathetic sky ripping interpretation of the harmonica solo. Piercing howls and yelps. Sounds like it's killing them and also like they love it. Which when you get right down to it is the blues.

He was not surprised that a tear hit the page, nor that he spread it on the paper with his thumb as he had before.

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb the dead never do, if they never want anything.

Ich lache. Ich johle. Ziemlich morbide. Jasper wirft mir von der Seite einen peinlich berührten Hundeblick zu.

Why don't we have a word for the utterance between laughing and crying?

Distantly recall. Standing there with a smile of triumph and his scruffy week old beard. I swear. I start to laugh. That's what he does to me: aggravate me all the way to the point of laughter.

I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

Wynn's loss reverberated and was swept up into the more pervasive loss of his mother just as the sound of the stream rose up and was scattered by the wind in these pines.

It's very hard to be a boy, " Celine commented dryly. "You're never sure whether to love something or kill it.

There is a pain you can't think your way out of. You can't talk it away.

I'm not so sure we're all that good at telling whether something is dead or alive. Maybe we confuse alive with lots of noise, emotion, and zeal.

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

He had been looking forward to a further insight into the life of this woman he was so deeply in love with and still knew so little about.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Love gives you eyes.

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

When Esau heard his fatherís words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.