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Quotes About Emotion

...the heart is full — another throb would split it...
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881
My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
~ Mark Twain
But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars in the sky...
~ Edgar Allan Poe, "For Annie"
Heart pumps blood — and love, passion, hurt, joy, faith.
~ Terri Guillemets
A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
~ Bible, Proverbs 17:22
I am looking your heart in the eye!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1861
Carry your heart and your curls, and nothing more but your fingers.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1865
Soul sells life for the price of heartache.
~ Terri Guillemets
They say "follow your heart," but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?
~ Author Unknown
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!
~ Lord Byron
Every time I think of you, it is like getting a hug from the inside out.
~ Author Unknown
L'odio creava fra loro un legame più saldo di quanto non avrebbe potuto fare l'amore.
~ Jack London
He was remarkably susceptible to music. It was like strong drink, firing him to audacities of feeling, - a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky. It banished sordid fact, flooded his mind with beauty, loosed romance and to its heels added wings.
~ Jack London
But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.
~ Jack London
Aveva amato la poesia perché gli interessava la bellezza; ma da quando l'aveva incontrata gli si erano spalancate le porte sui territori sconfinati della poesia d'amore.
~ Jack London
his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.
~ Jack London
of course she promptly loved him, or thought she did, which amounts to the same thing.
~ Jack London
It was only for a moment, but it was a long moment to him, during which his blood turned to wine and sang through his veins.
~ Jack London
She had never had any experiences of the heart. Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality;
~ Jack London
life is always happy when it is expressing itself
~ Jack London
How I hate you, he said softly. If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.
~ Jack Vance
I hate you with the hate that I give to all the world; I love you with a feeling nothing else arouses.
~ Jack Vance
Every story has, or should have, a mood: the connective tissue which holds the story together. In this regard some writers are adroit, others don't have a clue.
~ Jack Vance
Liane is feared by those who fear fear, loved by those who love love.
~ Jack Vance