Quotes About Emotion

The flash of this knowledge — for it was knowledge in the midst of dread — produced in me the most extraordinary effect.

She sometimes felt a sort of passion of tenderness for memories which had led no other merit than that they belonged to her unmarried life.

It has been everything for me to see you.

There was something between them. There was everything.

You like excitement and emotion and change, you like remarkable sensations, whereas I go in for a holy calm, for sweet repose.

I can't escape unhappiness.

The element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other.

These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.

There was literally, in the ebbing . . . an extraordinarily sweet sadness.

It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.

It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.

She had to take from him again, on this, one of his long looks, and she took it to its deepest, its headiest dregs.

It's you who draw me out. I exist in you. Not in others.

But the sense that it was his last chance, that he loved her and had lost her, that she would think him a fool whatever he should say, suddenly gave him a lash and added a deep vibration to his low voice.

I love you as I've never loved you.

He said at another time that she had no heart; and he added in a moment that she had given it all away—in small pieces, like a frosted wedding-cake.

Recibí su beso y, mientras lo estrechaba un momento entre mis brazos, tuve que hacer el más enorme esfuerzo para no llorar.

She sat with him at any rate, in the grey clearance—as sad as a winter dawn—made by their meeting.

Should you positively like to live here? I think I should like, said poor Milly after an instant, to die here.

She wished to say everything; she was afraid he might die before she had done so.

It's as if he said to me: I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.

He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!

The whole past is between them.

But my impression dates from the very first hour we met. I lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I know now that's not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better of novels for evermore.