Quotes about Emotions

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

The worst killing is that which kills the joy we get from life.

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature

She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and the moment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.