Quotes About Emotion

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

O Douglas, O Douglas! Tender and true.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.

I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

He only may chastise who loves.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

What is man but his passion?

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.