The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: truth economics emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. —Nicholas Sparks in The Last Song More about this quote Tags: life memory mystery emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Tags: importance emotion anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women — a new job, a new town, a divorce — which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves. —Nadine Gordimer More about this quote Tags: attention progress aging change emotion surprise distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive, or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive, and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom. —Richard Brautigan More about this quote Tags: love emotion promises writers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because we aren't crying on the outside doesn't mean we aren't completely wrecked on the inside. —Rachel Van Dyken More about this quote Tags: sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. —Kate Reid More about this quote Tags: emotion acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: humanity crying emotion robots Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot. —Jim Geoghan in Light Sensitive More about this quote Tags: love emotion forever Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. —David Rockefeller More about this quote Tags: art emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." . . . I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar. —Jeffrey Eugenides More about this quote Tags: regret experience happiness joy sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was sad that any devotion or encouragement I got from someone made me emotional. But it was rare. —Abbi Glines in Until The End More about this quote Tags: emotion devotion encouragement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things—time and an emotional replacement—to fully mend one. —Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With More about this quote Tags: relationship heart loss emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life. —Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? More about this quote Tags: hope expectations emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you. —Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl More about this quote Tags: intellect death loss emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email