“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.…”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“As I sit on the folding metal chair I begin to fear getting up. As the finale approaches, I experience outright panic. What if my feet no longer move? What if my muscles lock?”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why.”— Robert McCammon, amazon.com
“Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation. These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com
“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”— Myra McEntire, amazon.com
“I am sorry they mistook your kindness for weakness, Don’t they know? It takes a strong heart to pump all this blood, all this trying, all this willingness to be open when everyone around is trying to force you closed. You warrior with a purple heart. You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility. The…”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Music, on the other hand, does not allow us to hide. It is a vehicle for emotion. Perhaps, in a way, it is nothing but feeling, even in its most precise form.”— Irene Keliher, narrativemagazine.com
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com