Quotes About Emotion

there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

the way the diamond caused people to reasses her--their palpable appreciation that Drew was loved by someone, was someone worth loving

Što god ti rekao, vjeruješ u ljubav. Potrebna ti je. Jednoga dana srest ?eš ženu pred kojom ?eš se rastopiti kad je vidiš. Poželjet ?eš svakog trenutka u danu biti s njom. Stari moj, u želatinu ?eš se pretvoriti.

Your problem is that you're Russian - you don't know how to be happy.

That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

It's not just the hair of course. It's those piercing hazel eyes which you hide pretty well." His scowl increased. "Just be happy you're not an animal. You'd probably end up being someone's coat.

She didn't know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn't handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

He looked me right in the eyes and slowly touched his nose to mine, stealing my heart and halting my breath. I held him close and he purred a tiny kitten purr that told me he belonged there.

I stare at him, lovestruck. I have just tipped my hand, shown the worst of myself - faithless, foolish, weak as any woman has ever been accused of being - and still he wants me.

You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Che si spezzi il cuore affidato ad un corpo che vuole e non vuole morire; anzi disvuole volendo la morte tacita e notturna, in una stanza nottivaga, libera da storie magica stanza inquieta nella mano palpitante e sincera la mano che calza la mattina, la copre le coperte sventagliate al sole che sta lì dinanzi al vento di albe e mattine

As we stepped into the large mess hall, a band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner," and Old Glory was unfurled before us. I came undone. I couldn't help it; I began to sob. This was the first American flag we had seen in years. No one who had not experienced the past four years with us could understand what it meant to see that flag and hear that song. I thought my heart would burst within me with pride and with the first-born feeling of being really free!

Once again we discover that everything happened according to God's will, not the scheme of men. Oh, Caiaphas played his part. Unable to rouse the crowd through his words, he did all he could to fan the flames of the worst in human emotion: fear, anger, and cruelty.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

The limbic system is the part of the brain that detects things in the environment that we should pay attention to and sends an emotional signal about what to do in response: Avoid! Investigate! Eat! Fight! Flirt! Starting around puberty, the limbic system becomes more sensitive to stimulus, which is one reason teenagers become both more emotional and more interested in having new and intense experiences.

Her father did look tired, almost as if he were sitting in shadow when everyone around him was in sunshine.

People believe what they want to believe, lad. It's very hard to believe in anything that will make you unhappy.