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Quotes About Emotion

Illa dolos dirumque nefas in pectore versat, certa mori, varioque irarum fluctuat aestu.
~ Virgil
Furens quid femina possit
~ Virgil
Omnia vincit amor.
~ Virgil
Quis furor iste novus?
~ Virgil
Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore
~ Virgil
Haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa uolentem dicere deseruit, tenuesque recessit in auras. Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par leuibus uentis uolucrique simillima somno.
~ Virgil
Love cares for no one. The bees never seem to have enough of clover, The goats never seem to have enough of leaves, The meadows never enough of freshening water; Love never seems to have enough of tears.
~ Virgil
a heart that is maddened with love
~ Virgil
pledge of a love that were better unnamed
~ Virgil
Love is a journey from the first blush of physical attraction to a marriage of souls.
~ Virginia Henley
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
~ Virginia Woolf
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
~ Virginia Woolf
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
~ Virginia Woolf
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
~ Virginia Woolf
To love makes one solitary.
~ Virginia Woolf
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
~ Virginia Woolf
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
~ Virginia Woolf
It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
~ Virginia Woolf
But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
~ Virginia Woolf
Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.
~ Virginia Woolf
Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.
~ Virginia Woolf
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
~ Virginia Woolf
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
~ Virginia Woolf
Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.
~ Virginia Woolf