Emotional Turmoil Quotes

“Beauty empowers uplifting emotions and overwhelms us with spiritual fulfillment and transcendence. If we lack beauty, we remain disconnected and alienated and experience emptiness, sadness, or despair. This void creates emotional turmoil and may plunge our lives into hell.
("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I know you're in a world of pain, but that pain will lessen. At the beginning you can't see that. You can only see your pain and you think it will never go away.
But the nature of pain is that it changes— it changes like a sunset. At first, it's this intense red-orange in the sky, and then it starts getting softer and soften. The texture of pain changes as you work through it. And then one day, you wake up and realize that life isn't just about working through your incest; it's about living, too.
- survivor of child sexual abuse”
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“जब मान्छेको आफ्नो कमजोरी सामुन्ने आएर जिस्काउन थाल्छ; तब न त स्वीकार गर्ने साहस हुन्छ, न त नकार्ने हिम्मत !”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“When one's own weaknesses come to the fore and start tormenting them, they have neither the courage to accept them nor the strength to deny them.”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“Sometimes we don’t want to move, speak, or act like that. But something deep inside us pushes us to speak and act in that way. Afterward, we feel so ashamed.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“On the night you finally tell him, take him out to dinner. Translate the entrees for him. When you are home, lying in bed together, tell him that you are going to leave. He will look panicked, but not surprised. Perhaps he will say, Look, I don't care who else you're seeing or anything: what is your reason?

Do not attempt to bandy words. Tell him you do not love him anymore. It will make him cry, rivulets wending their way into his ears. You will start to feel sick. He will say something like: Well, you lose some, you lose some. You are supposed to laugh. Ex-hale. Blow your nose. Flick off the light. Have a sense of humor, he will whisper into the black. Have a heart.

Make him breakfast. He will want to know where you will go. Reply: To the actor. Or: To the hunchbacks. He will not eat your break-fast. He will glare at it, stir it around the plate with a fork, and then hurl it against the wall.”
― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

“You have inner emotional turmoil because you are suppressing who you really are and submitting, through fear, to another’s design; and/or you are seething with anger and resentment with people who won’t live their lives as you believe they should.”
― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom

“Don't keep my heart in emotional turmoil.”
― Anthony T. Hincks