Quotes About Emotion

I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.

How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else.

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into

Junto dela nunca tive nem uma hora de felicidade, mas, mesmo assim, meu espírito, durante as vinte e quatro horas do dia, ainda desejava a felicidade de tê-la junto de mim até a morte.

Maldito seas! A fe que merece simpatía el hombre que me demuestra lo que yo podría haber sido y no soy.

She said the word often enough, and there could be no doubt that she meant to say it; but if the often repeated word had been hate instead of love—despair—revenge—dire death—it could not have sounded from her lips more like a curse. (29.88)

I wish I had died. I wish I had died then, with that feeling in my heart! I should have been more fit for heaven than I ever have been since.

Yet this made me none the happier, for, even if she had not taken that tone of our being disposed of by others, I should have felt that she held my heart in her hand because she wilfully chose to do it, and not because it would have wrung any tenderness in her, to crush it and throw it away.

Out of my thoughts!You are part of my existence,part of myself,you have been in every line I have ever read.

Of repentance or remorse or any feeling of mine, I say not a word. If I were not dumb, you would be deaf. Let that go by. It is not for your ears.

There were tears in the eye of the gentle girl, as these words were spoken; and when one fell upon the flower over which she bent, and glistened brightly in its cup, making it more beautiful, it seemed as though the outpouring of her fresh young heart, claimed kindred with the loveliest things in nature.

I never saw such curls—how could I, for there never were such curls!—as those she shook out to hide her blushes.

I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.

I shall always need you, because I shall always love you; but my need is no greater now, than at another time.

I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume the expression.

I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.

But I loved Joe—perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him

If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

No one can understand him better than I do. The greatest wisdom that ever lived in the world could scarcely know Richard better than my love does.

When the voice stopped, he put his hand over his eyes, murmuring