Quotes About Emotion

Ah minel-a?k vel-halatihi diyor Arap. Ya?am??lar, ya?am??lar, hepsini biliyorlar. A?k?n halleri say?s?z. Fakat en büyük ?st?rap, galiba, inanmak zorlu?unda toplan?yor. Derece ?üphesi.

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

Music is not just the black dots on the white paper -- it's what happens when those black dots go into your heart, and come out again.

Ti sentì meglio?" Meglio? Quello che volevo chiederle, quello che le avrei chiesto se avessi pensato che lei potesse darmi una risposta utile era "Perché la perdita di qualcuno che ami non dovrebbe distruggerti?

Tess, ti amo. Apri gli occhi" "Cosa?" "Apri gli occhi" "No. L'altra cosa" "Ti amo" "Davvero?" "Già" "Come lo sai?" "Non lo so. È così e basta" "Anch'io" "Davvero?" "Davvero" Aprii gli occhi e non guardai giù ma dritto verso Jimmy Freeze

Jimmy improvvisamente sembrò rovente dentro di me, e bruciava via tutto fin su nel mio petto e in gola e io resistetti finché potei, non più per lui ma per me, perché pensavo che se fossi rimasta in silenzio, lasciando che continuasse soltanto a respirare, che continuasse a spingere il suo fuoco dentro di me, Jimmy Freeze sarebbe stato in grado di bruciarmi annullandomi

It's like nothing else; you can't explain its intensity in words. To have that power over life—nothing is more sexually exciting; it's the ultimate, something very few people experience.

Killing with a knife is very personal; you actually are holding it as it goes in, and when death comes, you can feel your victim dying through the knife. It's like sex.

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight. That sets up a depressing possibility: Is misery the price of accuracy?

Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.

Joys are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.

Ali sada brzam. Pri?e imaju po?etak, trebale bi ?ak imati i sredinu, ali nikad nisam siguran imaju li pri?e kao što je ova doista i kraj; barem ga ne?e biti dok se god osje?am ovako zbog žene koju nisam Vidio, niti dodirnuo, niti govorio s njom ve? tisu?u godina.

Loud songs do not a patriot make.

No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.