1,266 Quotes About Emotion

How can you meet and speak to any human being and not have feelings for them? This whole world is nothing if you feel nothing.

Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous.

We’re meant for each other for a moment, but no one knows how long the moment lasts except the moment itself.

And I touch. Not because I want to feel, but because I’m looking to see if this is real.

Then the feeling moves on. It does not collapse; it is not whisked away. It simply moves on, like a train that stops at a small country station, stands for a while, and then continues out of sight.

You have to feel. Otherwise you end up like the piano teacher.

Sometimes I growso tired of speakingmy emotions to you.I open my mouthand dust spills outinstead of feelings.

She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit—leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.