Quotes About Emotion

Joseph wasn't by nature reflective or deliberative. He conducted his life impulsively, acting according to instinct and emotion. The Lord, it seemed to him, must surely have intended man to know the love of more than one wife or He wouldn't have made the prospect so enticing.

As she studies the pictures, she breaks down from time to time, weeping as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

Laughter is always something that is a shared experience

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice. DONALD BARTHELME

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It's not that I normally avoid thinking about my Mom. I think about her every day, of course, and feel how much I miss her. But I always make sure not to wade in above my chest.

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds.

knows how this will end: but assuredly in one extreme or the other. There can be no medium between those who have loved so much.

In Greek, the word for "hate," miseo, is best understood as "loving less" rather than as viewing something with hostility.

Fear, Aristotle observed, does not strike those who are "in the midst of great prosperity.

The capacity of music to reassure and to remind is one of its cardinal virtues.

Wow, I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.

So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there's this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the emotional connotations. Somehow they don't put them together. Various parts of the limbic system just don't light up."     And

It was a heartbreaking story. He closed his eyes tightly as he told it, so I took the opportunity to quickly check Twitter. I hate not knowing what's happening on Twitter.

I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.

She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

Okay, enough of that. If I keep writing in this emotional vein, Oprah might take notice of me

She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.

Cats are loners that keep us company only when the mood strikes them

My heart floated dead and cold in my chest.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain