461 quotes found
“Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.”
“What makes and experience a memory is when we share with someone, the emotions we felt”
“Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.”
“Mislaid flame of tender emotionsRekindled.Together we live to the point of tears,I wouldnt want it any other way.”
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
“I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.”
“It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.”
“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of...”
“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”
“The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or feeling-thinking to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo ...”
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.”
“The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces those, I think, are the sensations of grief.”
“Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.”
“She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but ...”
“Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloatingFull in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletonsVarious species grouped together accordingTo their past beliefsThe only way ...”
“In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask ...”
“You are lucky to feel sadness.”
“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.”
“We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.”
“What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.”
