Emotional Validity Quotes

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

Feelings don't lie.

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.