Quotes About Emotion

Love is a battle she said smiling, And I plan on going fighting 'til the end. Love is a battle? well, I don't feel at all like fighting, and he left.

La felicidad es el deseo de repetir.

He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain

and she thinks, almost joyfully, that it's fine this way because the truth is finally revealed: she feels no need to understand him or to have him understand her.

Tomas ne savait pas, alors, que les métaphores sont une chose dangereuse. On ne badine pas avec les métaphores. L'amour peut naître d'une seule métaphore.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

she had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love.

Con ello no quiero decir que haya dejado de amarla, que la haya olvidado, que su recuero haya empalidecido; al contrario; permanece dentro de mí constantemente como una callada nostalgia; la anhelo como se anhela algo que se ha perdido definitivamente.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

It was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Yürek konuÅŸtuÄŸunda, ak?l kar?? koymay? yak???ks?z bulur.

She knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us

Con las metáforas no se juega. El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.

No veía una llamativa desproporción entre la insignificancia de la causa y la enormidad del acto? ¿Acaso no sabía si lo que proyectaba hacer era excesivo? Sí, pero precisamente lo que le atraía era el exceso. No quería ser razonable. No quería ser comedida. No quería medir, no quería razonar. Admiraba su propia pasión, aún sabiendo que la pasión, por definición, es un exceso. Como ebria, no quería salir de esa ebriedad.

È questa la cosa spaventosa: il passato di cui ricordiamo è senza tempo. Impossibile rivivere un amore come rileggendo un libro o rivedendo un film

Tomas se disait: coucher avec une femme et dormir avec elle, voilà deux passions non seulement différentes mais presque contradictoires. L'amour ne se manifeste pas par le désir de faire l'amour (ce désir s'applique à une innombrable mutitude de femmes) mais par le désir du sommeil partagé (ce désir-là ne concerne qu'une seule femme).

The situation is very slightly solemn and thus embarrassing, as are all such situations when after the initial lovemaking, the lovers confront a future they are suddenly required to take on.

when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.

One day, he saw her through the window of a café. She was sitting with two women, and her face, long riddled with wrinkles from her unbridled gift for grimaces, was in a state of animation.

Am spus înainte c? metaforele sunt periculoase. Iar dragostea începe cu o metafor?. Altfel spus: dragostea începe în clipa în care o femeie se înscrie cu un cuvânt în memoria noastr? poetic?.