Quotes About Emotion

It's all right, she said. It's all right. That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen.

It seemed like years before I picked a bouquet of kisses off her mouth and put them into a dawn-colored vase in my heart. But the wait was worth it. Because I was in love.

She was exploiting the maximum amount of drama out of taking off her clothes. It made me think of Hamlet.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Fear is the single most self-defeating emotion in our lives.

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?

religious faith has something of the same character as falling in love (and both have many of the attributes of being high on an addictive drug*

I love you, Lance. He rattles the frame of the window and reaches out at me. I guess that's his way of saying I love you too..

There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don't really mind so much, not so very much, after all. Love is not the whole of a man's life. I was happy before I ever met H. I've plenty of what are called "resources." People get over these things. Come, I shan't do so badly.… Then comes a sudden jab of red-hot memory and all this "commonsense" vanishes like an ant in the mouth of a furnace.

Later, crying became simply affirmation of feeling, and feeling the only compass in life. Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.

Why do you love words so? he heard Amy ask. ... They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.

and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too.

One man's feeling is not always equal to all that life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all.

You see, reason, gentlemen, is a fine thing, that is unquestionable, but reason is only reason and satisfies only man's reasoning capacity, while wanting is a manifestation of the whole of life. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Really, the new hand felt normal, no different from her old hand. It was impossible to say why she felt so oddly about it, thought Anna. It was her hand, after all. Except somehow, looking at it, in a way she had no words to describe, it no longer was.

Without love, what was the world?

One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter.

I tried to write what I remembered of the day. It sounded terrible and noble all at once. But it wasn't any of those things.

and every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was.

Dorrigo felt a warm

He smiled at me, and it was not the worried, nervous smile from before, but a smile that meant he was pleased. And I don't remember him ever smiling at me that way again.

No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.