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Quotes About Emotion

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.
~ Carl Sagan
Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.
~ Carl Sagan
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species
~ Carl Sagan
While the content of many dreams seem haphazard, others are remarkably well structured; these dreams have a remarkable resemblance to drama.
~ Carl Sagan
His voice was right. She instantly remembered it. And his smell, his gait, his laugh. The way his beard abraded her cheek. All of it combined to shatter her self-possession. She could feel a massive stone seal being pried open and the first rays of light entering an ancient, almost forgotten tomb.
~ Carl Sagan
Scientific insight made him feel something, a soaring sensation, a recognition that he could only compare to falling in love. And as he used to say: "When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
~ Carl Sagan
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
~ Carl Sandburg
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
~ Carl Sandburg
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
~ Tennessee Williams
I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know.
~ Tennessee Williams
Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.
~ Tennessee Williams
To know me is not to love me. At
~ Tennessee Williams
Oh, no se puede describir al que se ama
~ Tennessee Williams
You were a wonderful lover... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. Isn't that right? Never had any anxiety about it, did it naturally, easily, slowly, with absolute confidence and perfect calm, more like opening a door for a lady or seating her at a table than giving expression to any longing for her. Your indifference made you wonderful at lovemaking - strange? - but true...
~ Tennessee Williams
To be not alone, even for a few moments, is worth the pain and the danger.
~ Tennessee Williams
You were a wonderful lover.... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it.
~ Tennessee Williams
SHANNON: A man can die of panic. HANNAH: Not if he enjoys it as much as you, Mr Shannon.
~ Tennessee Williams
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! Here is a picture of him!
~ Tennessee Williams
Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think... The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow.
~ Tennessee Williams
I want what I'm afraid of and I'm afraid of what I want so that I'm like a storm inside that can't break loose!
~ Tennessee Williams
I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears
~ Terence McKenna
Los muertos se olvidan. Lo cual no quiere decir que no se lloren sincera y hondamente durante algún tiempo
~ Teresa de la Parra
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.
~ Teresa of Avila
This woman was truly what he wanted, and therefore he was truly afraid for the first time.
~ Terry Bisson