Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

I am a very emotional person.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

I'm an emotional guy.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

I have no human feelings.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I'm a very emotional person.

I'm an emotional person.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

I was a little bit of a loner, but fascinated with emotions that people feel.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.

I'm an emotional guy. It's as simple as that.