It’s such a liability to love another person… it’s like playing catch with grenades.
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Quotes tagged ‘Emotion’
You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.
We are always fearful for ourselves in this life.
Part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.
The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you may be my poem, I whisper with my lips close to your ear. I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
In the emotion of the moment, people often say and do reckless things. For the individual, that can have deep ramifications. But when it is a single individual acting unreasonably in the throws of emotion in the face of sorrow, then the consequences are borne by only that person and his family. But…
Because when words are written with feelings and the soul, they do not forget that their destination is the ocean of a text, and that sooner or later they have to arrive there.
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot…
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.