“A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“I feel that a lot, actually, in lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don’t.”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“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.”— Silas House, amazon.com
“There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred. Therefore, practice patience and tolerance.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“Loneliness doesn't make it to my emotional core anymore. It's no longer disturbing. It's a little like... hunger.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“Emotions are like vomit. You can only hold it in for so long before it all just comes out... and by that time it's pretty messy.”— Simon Sinek, twitter.com
“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”— Philip Sington, amazon.com
“It is, as my therapist says, a study into the metaphysics of absent love.”— John Mayer, rollingstone.com
“The race is on, I'm on your side But hearing you my engines died I'm in the mood for you Or for running away”— Counting Crows, open.spotify.com
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“When you are stressed on mind... to pour it out, is the behavior, most kind!”— Sujit Lalwani, amazon.com
“You can’t always control your environment, but you CAN control your reaction to your environment.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“What does it mean when you know you’re feeling something but you don’t know what that feeling is?”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com
“I am not being emotional for no reason. My anxiety likes to trick me into worrying about many problems, mainly the illogical ones. At times it will feel as if I am drowning in my emotions, but at other times it will feel as if I am sitting in a desert, void of any feelings at all.”— Stefanie Manzi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let everything happen to you, Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com