Emotional Response Quotes

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Remember that no one can hurt you except yourself. If someone does a mean thing to you, that person is hurt. You are not really hurt unless you become embittered, or unless you become angry and perhaps do a mean thing in return.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.