Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.

Showing your emotions is not a weakness.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I react emotionally to everything!

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.