Articulating Emotions Quotes

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it's not. Sometimes you don't even understand what you're feeling. You don't know how to put that into words, so how are you suppose to tell the person you love that you're upset.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

Easy to exemplify my true feelings towards him

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy.

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.