emotional measurement Quotes

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

If you get into Scientology, you will go to auditing. It's like therapy except that there is an E-meter between you and your auditor. That's a device that actually measures your galvanic skin responses. It's two metal cans that you hold. They used to be Campbell's Soup cans with the label scraped off.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.