Emotional Barrier Quotes

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

My girlfriend has been the ice.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

I believe passion is the sword of love that pierces through the wall of fears that hold us back.

sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

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

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

I am not easy to break through to. There is a protective shield that I have built psychologically. I am not open to everyone as I have been to ones those who have broken through me. But once you break through, I will love anything that you do.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.