“I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.” I CanDarkShareEmotionalSittingStrangerCinemaIntimateObligedSitting In The Dark Book:Eight and a half women Source: Eight and a half women
“I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.” WantMayLinesAnswersEmotionalFindingsStrangerPsychologicalCuriousBusPhysiologyBotany Author:Lydia Davis
“Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.” WayEmotionalParticularArmsWalkingKissingMouthsAffectionVariousStrangerDisplayDocumentsShockedFamineTurning PointsElizabethan Author:Frank McCourt
“I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!” LittlesEyeFunSexGrowsEmotionalCrisisCleanFolksLegsStrangerMessyBaggageHaircutsHaving SexLife CrisisMid Life CrisisEmotional BaggageNew Haircut Author:Ed Robertson
“I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.” PersonsTogetherRoomsGroupsObjectsEmotionalQuietStrangerStaringMuseumsInanimate Objects Author:Hiro Murai
“It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.” HardSongLevelsFrontsEmotionalSingingStandingStrangerBunchVulnerableOddEmbarrassingPlaying Music Author:Matt Berninger
“I feel vulnerable sometimes - when I see an emotional scene, for example - and I remember what it took to get to that place, and I fear sometimes that everybody else can see that. You bare a part of you that makes you uncomfortable. I freely give it, I know, but I feel like people know something about me that I wouldn't otherwise give freely to a stranger.” PeopleGivingSometimesRememberEmotionalSceneStrangerVulnerableUncomfortable Author:Diane Kruger