Quotes about Emotions

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.