Quotes About Emotion

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Laughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one.

Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so lovely that it takes you by the throat.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

From his heart, he thanks these young animals for their beauty. And they will never know what they have done to make this moment marvelous to him, and life itself less hateful.…

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

he begins to feel this utterly mysterious unsensational thing—not bliss, not ecstasy, not joy—just plain happiness. Das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidad—they have given it all three genders, but one has to admit, however grudgingly, that the Spanish are right; it is usually feminine, that's to say, woman-created.

Smiješno mi je sada toga se i sjetiti: kada sam prvi put sreo Ota, pomislio sam da ?emo zajedno proživjeti do kraja života.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

It's gone! he repeats, almost ecstatically. That's because you let it go, Jacob tells him.

All the poetry in the world is in that face.

Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled.

As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2).

And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.

Love is not full of pity (as men say)/ But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. (Hero and Leander, 771–72)

But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say)

Love always makes those eloquent that have it. ---From Hero and Leander, Sestiad II

Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears.

Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he loves me more than all the world

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.