Quotes About Emotion

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

And there is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid.

I love thee — I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.

The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.

Denial is a short-term solution that provides temporary comfort.

As soon as we notice we are annoyed or angry about something, we tend to protect ourselves by projecting the cause of our upsetting emotion onto a situation or another person: "They" did this to me. "They" are always a problem. But, in fact, the real problem is not "them" but us. All biases and prejudices are the attitudes of a child from ages four to eight. If they are present in us, we are still functioning at the level of a preadolescent.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition.

Canst paint a doleful cry?

If you interrupted them in the middle of an ecstatic moment, which pessimists do have, and asked if existence is basically undesirable, they would reply "Of course" before returning to their ecstasy. Why they should answer in this way is a closed book.

Optimists may have fugitive doubts about the basic desirability of existence, but pessimists never doubt that existence is basically undesirable. If you interrupted them in the middle of an ecstatic moment, which pessimists do have, and asked if existence is basically undesirable, they would reply "Of course" before returning to their ecstasy.

reason is merely the mouthpiece of emotion.

she is overwhelmed by an amorphous anxiety without a specific source.

Horror is not really horror unless it's your horror—that which you have known personally.

Love in my bosom like a beeDoth suck his sweet.

If there were dreams to sell,... Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

The living have to live with it. You don't. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.