Quotes About Emotion

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I realize now that friendship can break out between two people, with that sudden violence which is only attributed to the revelation of love.

He stopped suddenly, put his hand to his throat for a few minutes with his features fixed in a kind of stupid, hopeless searching look. Then his face brightened a little in spite of the anguish which he had doubtlessly forgotten.

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue

I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.

We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")

Now Borluut tried to work out how this had happened to him. Passion flows like a river and it is very difficult to go back to its source. It began imperceptibly.

The man did not attempt to deny it: 'Yes! It's the fault of this town.' The woman, pale and mournful, agreed: 'It's not our fault. Death is stronger than Love here.' ("The Dead Town")

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person?

Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.

I said i love you and you said i hate you

Love is a word used so freely that it's lost a lot of its meaning,

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.

I'm getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe