Quotes about Emotions

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128)

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry