Quotes about Emotion

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.

Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself.

If something did not love you you would not be here.

So where does music come from? No one knows. A platonic theory of music just muddies the water. Music is made out of nothing but some fairly simple rules. Yet it's true that no one made them up. The rules. The notes themselves amount to almost nothing. But why some particular arrangement of these notes should have such a profound effect on our emotions is a mystery beyond even the hope of comprehension. Music is not a language.

The rage of children seemed inexplicable other than as a breach of some deep and innate covenant having to do with how the world should be and wasnt.

Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.