Quotes about Emotions

He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.

A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

If I could suffer like you, I could heal like you.

Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.