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Quotes About Emotion

Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?
~ Natsuo Kirino
Strange that she'd never known she had such cruelty inside.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?
~ Natsuo Kirino
Ma non era per la sua ambizione che si era imbattuta in un atroce destino. La sua tragedia si era consumata perché lei amava profondamente un uomo che non sapeva amare. Naruse non aveva semplicemente ucciso Yoko, aveva ucciso l'amore.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love. Yet I am living without love. Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
The way I see it, it's got nothing to do with all of that. It has to do with love...A person don't got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby-- wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul. --Diego
~ Neal Shusterman
It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
~ Neal Shusterman
The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.
~ Neal Shusterman
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.
~ Neal Shusterman
Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.
~ Neal Shusterman
The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
~ Neal Shusterman
Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.
~ Neal Shusterman
The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
~ Neal Shusterman
Here, it seemed muscle wasn't made of flesh and blood, it was made of will and anger.
~ Neal Shusterman
I love you, Risa, he says. Every last part of me.
~ Neal Shusterman
Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.
~ Neal Shusterman
Love remains mortal
~ Neal Shusterman
I love you, Brew. No you don't, he said. Just shut up and take it, I told him. He smiled. Okay.
~ Neal Shusterman
I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's not about stupidity, or even rebellion-it's about feeling life.
~ Neal Shusterman
I wanted to take everything I was feeling, put it in a cannon and aim it at him.
~ Neal Shusterman