Quotes about Emotions

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

Despite Marijana's bracing presence, he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that turn into black gloom. He likes to think they come from elsewhere, episodes of bad weather that cross the sky and pass on. He prefers not to think they come from inside him and are his, part of him

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.