Quotes About Emotion

all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.

I love you," I murmur into his neck. "I love you." "I love you, too," he breathes into the curls over my ears. I don't even notice when the letters in PROGRESS burst into hot blue flame.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister.

Albert Einstein, for one, repeatedly expressed these feelings, as in the following celebrated passage (Einstein, 1949, p. 5): The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science…the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.

All she keeps inside isn't on the label.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.

You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.

A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

a momentary, positive emotion, an overall evaluation of the past or hope for the future, and a deep sense of joy, connection, and meaning.

No one should ever be bored. One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can't be bored.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

J'étais si heureux de sentir mon cœur capable d'un amour nouveau !... J'empruntais, dans cet enthousiasme factice, les formules mêmes qui, si peu de temps auparavant, m'avaient servi pour peindre un amour véritable et longtemps éprouvé. La lettre partie, j'aurais voulu la retenir, et j'allais rêver dans la solitude à ce qui me semblait une profanation de mes souvenirs.

Love has no logos.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.