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Quotes About Emotion

Back when, she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him that he couldn't read at all. Maybe something she'd picked up at acting school. "It isn't what you're thinking, Doc.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Words may be false and full of art, Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
~ Thomas Shadwell
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
~ Katherine Mansfield
What I feel for you can't be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise.
~ Katherine Mansfield
But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as you like.
~ Katherine Mansfield
When we reached home your cheeks were like roses, and your eyes were shining like stars, and you tried to tell Mummy so much in one breath that I thought you would burst.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Do you feel in this letter my love for you today - It is as warm as a bird's nest.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, father dear.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I long to do wild, passionate things.
~ Katherine Mansfield
You put me in touch with my own soul.
~ Katherine Mansfield
It was simply marvelous. But Laurie--" She stopped, she looked at her brother. "Isn't life," she stammered, "isn't life--" But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. "Isn't it, darling?" said Laurie.
~ Katherine Mansfield
What I feel for you can't be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.
~ Katherine Mansfield
You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
~ Katherine Mansfield
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...
~ Katherine Mansfield
All of this makes me realize that my parents never knew me. They never really knew who I was. They only knew the picture of who I was that they'd helped me create in response to their needs. How sad it is to think that these people who knew me for 50 years, who had given me life, never really knew who I am.
~ Katherine Mayfield
C'est comme une furie en moi, une perversion qui me pousse à désirer ce que je méprise le plus au monde.
~ Katherine Pancol
J'avais décidé de me retirer de l'amour comme on fait ses adieux à la scène. Fatiguée de jouer toujours le même rôle.
~ Katherine Pancol
You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
~ Katherine Paterson
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
~ Katherine Paterson
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
~ Katherine Paterson
A free fall from joy to.. Truth.
~ Katherine Stone
You can and you must. Go to the man you love and love him in whatever way you can for as long as you can. Love him in whatever way you can.
~ Katherine Stone