Quotes About Emotion

His reaction looked very much like anger, with threatening gestures, raised voice, and a purple face. But his anger was triggered by apprehension and was mixed with hope that some good discipline might keep me from being so stupid again. It sure did! My point here is that every display of emotion needs to be judged in a wider context. A single label rarely suffices. To call my father's state "angry" fails to do it justice without also mentioning love and worry.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.

An emotion is correct, "when one's feelings are adequate to their object — adequate in the sense of being appropriate, suitable, or fitting

"Like a dog!" he said. It seemed as if his shame would live on after him.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

If you love, he wrote, or wish to love, do not dream. from "In Memory of the Future

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Perdican era el fruto de las entrañas de Rosette, que era de mi propiedad, así que me correspondía a mí tomar la decisión. A la fuerza, voté por la muerte (...) Tenía la sensación de estar traicionando a mi primer amigo del alma.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy". This was the dictum of Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the greatest chessmasters of all time, after 50 years of chess playing.

Understanding love is one of the hardest things in the world.

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. Nor can any description that I might offer here even approximate what it feels like to lose a real chunk of money that you used to own.

Cela ne se remarque pas, mais il est hors de lui. Il y a des gens chez qui ça ne se voit pas.

Valence passa une main sur ses yeux et quitta la fenêtre. -L'alcool est là, lui dit Néron en tendant les bras.

Otkrivam da vjernost kad si zaljubljen prestaje biti žrtva. Zaljubljen se ?ovjek prepoznaje po tome što je vjeran, a da to nije namjerno i da se time ne razme?e. Ljubav je ta caka koja vjernost ?ini prirodnom.

Crying means you have succeeded to open up beyond your mental."

She better not die this time," I guess I said.

It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music.

Muic is the outburst of the soul.