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Quotes About Emotion

And what is beauty?" "Terror.
~ Donna Tartt
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty — unless she is wed to something more meaningful — is always superficial.
~ Donna Tartt
I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
~ Donna Tartt
Si un cuadro te llega de verdad al corazón y cambia tu forma de mirar, de pensar, de sentir, no piensas: «Oh, me encanta este cuadro porque es universal» o «Me encanta este cuadro porque habla a toda la humanidad». Esa no es la razón por la que alguien ama una obra de arte. Es un susurro secreto desde un callejón: «Psss. Eh, chico. Sí, tú».
~ Donna Tartt
Se penso, se mi figuro d'aver perso quest'occasione per paura o per comodo o per qualunque altro motivo, mi vengono i brividi.
~ Donna Tartt
Beauty is terror
~ Donna Tartt
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted
~ Donna Tartt
Se uma pintura realmente se nos entranha no coração e muda a maneira como vemos e pensamos e sentimos, não dizemos para connosco: Oh, adoro esta pintura porque é universal. Adoro esta pintura porque diz algo a toda a humanidade. Não é essa a razão por que quem quer que seja adora uma peça de arte.
~ Donna Tartt
Ma il pensiero di lei mi affliggeva al punto che non riuscivo a dimenticarla più di quanto avrei potuto dimenticare un mal di denti.
~ Donna Tartt
I was having to have fun and be happy. You wanted to be dead. It's different
~ Donna Tartt
You do have great love within you at this very moment.
~ Doreen Virtue
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It's full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being 'objective.' Nostalgia for what? I don't know. Because I'd rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the 'Anna' of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
~ Doris Lessing
Emotion is a trap, it delivers you into the hands of society, that's why people are measuring it out.
~ Doris Lessing
Inside she was dissolving in horror at them both, at how far they had both sunk from honesty of emotion.
~ Doris Lessing
Las palabras aparecen en tu mente y allí bailan a ritmos de los que tú conscientemente nada sabes. Cabos y rabos de palabras: pueden ser una indicación de un estado de ánimo oculto. Pueden removerse o cantar durante días, enloqueciéndote. Pueden ser como película invisible, como pelicula adhesiva, entre tú y la realidad.
~ Doris Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
~ Dorothea Lange
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
~ Dorothy Allison
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
~ Dorothy Allison
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
~ Dorothy Allison
You are trying to put something on the page worth what it costs you to put it on the page.
~ Dorothy Allison