“That day, Alex’s emotional saturation reached its peak. His pain was so intense, and he was so young, that neither his amazing self-restraint nor his self-confidence were able to hold back the flood of feelings and emotions overwhelming him. It is the only time I ever see him like that.As for me, I found out early on, through personal experience, that falling in love passes quickly, as do strong feelings. I feel bad for him, but I know he’ll soon get over it. Give it a couple of months and he’ll find himself attracted to someone else.”
Source: Monogamy Book One. Lover
“A seemingly sudden reaction is just the last act in an invisible emotional chain.”
“Intellect is the light which illuminates its path, and without this light, emotion changes back and forth. In fact, if emotions prevail over the intellect, it is able to obscure the light and distort the picture of the entire world…. Emotional stirrings need the control of reason and the direction of the will.”
Source: Essays on Woman: 002;Collected Works of Edith Stein
“When are emotions ever ruled by something as trivial as time?”
Source: Wicked Bite
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.”
“She hated that her siblings thought she was cold or unfeeling. Just because she'd been brought up to keep her emotions hidden didn't mean that she never experienced those emotions.”
Source: American Royals
“We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.”
Source: Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
“There was absolutely nothing that she could do with this huge emotion which she had so suddenly discovered in herself.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.”
Source: Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation