Quotes about Emotions

In the afternoon when school was out and the last one had left with his little dirty snuffling nose, instead of going home I would go down the hill to the spring where I could be quiet and hate them.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. Cash

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.

It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

Interestingly, there has been significant research done with people experiencing what we call infatuation. When we have this experience we could call falling into infatuation (or falling into romantic interest), chemicals are secreted in the brain, causing light-headedness, dizziness, and a flood of emotions that we can't explain. Certain people trigger that kind of response in us. We are almost instantly drawn to them.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.