Emotional Boundary Quotes

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

There's a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it's a very odd one.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.