“The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.” IfsLooksWarRealSufferingLossNumbersEmotionRedArmyBraveryExtraordinaryDisappearOratory Author:John Vinocur
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.” MenFeelingsSpiritCultureLostLossResultsEmotionBrainModernIdentityDegreesHighestTrainingAspectWestForgottenEducationalSensesContemporaryReasoningAestheticInwardAlienationTruestRestlessnessEducational SystemModern ManHis Loss Author:Kallistos Ware
“Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.” HeartBigsLossGriefEmotionRolesTeachModelsRole ModelsPrincessUnbelievableCocktailsMost AmazingBig HeartGrief LossGreat Role ModelsUnbelievable Things Author:Lily James
“I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.” WantFeelsCharacterHelpingChoicesPassionOpportunityVoiceRealizingLossEmotionSadnessHonestUniqueOriginalsImpactGenuineAuthenticityConfusionOur ChoicesLove PassionMissed Opportunity Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.” IfsGivingTryingHumansLittlesFeelingsValuesLeftLossEmotionBehindsGoneWorstMissingTomorrowHorrorViolentBackgroundsHolesNoiseBlockIntensityAcheLeft BehindMissing SomeoneHuman EmotionsAnger And FearBackground Noise Author:Alexandra Potter
“In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.” PeopleWayHappensLostLossEmotionGreat ThingsSchemes Author:Mike Tyson
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson
“The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.” PainMemoriesLossEmotionAcceptanceFlowCurrentsActiveDisasterOver ItHauntingAgonizing Author:Elizabeth Drew
“For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.” ThinkingHumansNaturalLossEmotionResponseNostalgiaInvoluntary Author:Michael Chabon
“You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.” MenLossGriefEmotionIntimacyScareBoogie Author:Gary Zukav
“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success” PeopleNeedsKindImportantCertainLossAbilityEmotionBrainCrazyDisciplineTerribleAdversityExtremesDrivenInvestorsIrrationalTemperamentGoing Crazy Author:Charlie Munger
“The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.” WayMindHeartMayWholeShowsHandsChristLossEmotionAttitudeAcceptingTroubleEgoImpulseHatsPermitUsualInconvenienceVerdictKneelingTroubled Heart Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.” FeelsWholeFeelingsMightLossEmotionHostYearningDominantResearchers Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again-or perhaps knowing that we won't.” IfsThinkingHeartPersonsDifferentStoriesLossEmotionKnowingSeparationGoodbyeNot KnowingSaying GoodbyeSaying Goodbye Love Author:Luanne Rice
“Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.” JoyLossEmotionSadness Book:Espresso Tales Source: Espresso Tales
“Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."” KnowsWayFirstsMadeSaidRealJobsGrowsFeltParentRealizingChallengesLossActingEmotionSadnessGrewDevelopmentGrew UpFirst TimePersonal DevelopmentDialogueSmokeSignalsSadness And AngerSmoke Signals Author:Adam Beach
“Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.” IfsFeelsRealReasonBigsTogetherFeltLossDealsEmotionTakenSadnessAdvantageCome UpDeeperRevelationsFairnessRippedTaken Advantage Author:Pete Docter
“It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.” FeelsAmericaDifficultLossEmotionExtremesTyrannyIndianFamily And FriendsAcquaintanceStood UpUnlawfulUntimely Death Author:Leonard Peltier
“My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.” WritingCharacterPurposeCoursesLossEmotionConstantCreatorFulfillmentThemeArcsThematic Author:Vera Nazarian
“Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that God had already prepared me for the darkness. And he did it through his Word.” LossEmotionMillionsDarknessPreparedBlindnessAdjustmentDeep Within Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.” CharacterFunLossWalksEmotionVulnerableRelateSuperheroRelatableSuperpower Author:Bryan Cranston
“I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.” ThinkingWritingImportantAgeLossGriefEmotionStruggleEmotionalInsightWitnessNursePersonal LifeLove And Loss Author:Christie Watson
“Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.” MindMeanPainDesireDifficultHurtLossEmotionAudienceSorrowAnxietyNegativeTragedyIntentionConfusionContradictionResentmentAbsurdityShameful Author:Hyon Gyon
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.” DesireFeltLossEmotionDecidedFulfillmentContentmentGapsAnticipationRetreatAche Author:Kiran Desai
“It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.” BelieveSaidSoulPainMotherLostLossEmotionQualityFiguresNotesMourningLabourIndispensableEraseIrreplaceable Author:Roland Barthes
“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.” WorldWellsBodyCoursesLeftLossSimpleGriefEmotionSadnessExpectationsMadnessDiedLongingDefinitionsBlowInnocenceRangeRealmsTemporaryIntensityCrashShockingStraightforwardOther WorldsLinearLeft Out Author:Gail Caldwell
“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsCareLostFeltLossEmotionWonderCaringEmptinessSensationsFloatingDetachmentNumbSaddestNumbnessNot CaringFloating Away Book:Player One Source: Player One