Quotes About Emotion

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

The light that liesIn woman's eyes,Has been my heart's undoing.

Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond Memory brings the lightOf other days around me;The smiles, the tears,Of boyhood's years,The words of love then spoken;The eyes that shoneNow dimmed and gone,The cheerful hearts now broken.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

But there's nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream.

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for whatever reasons occurred to you at the time, depending on whichever emotion was running thickest in your blood. Your desire and fear and adrenaline and longing. You made your choice and came up with the reasons later.

He would praise her beyond the moon and stars, and that so sweetly and ravishingly, as I persuade myself he was more in love with his own curious forming fancy than her face; and truth is, many become passionate lovers only to win praise to their wits.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Let those love now who never loved before;Let those who always loved, now love the more.

They didn't speak, only touched and kissed, feeling the understanding that they loved each other deeply and permanently—that for him, she was the one woman who would stand in his life for all women, and in her life, he would stand for all men.

I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.

They're in love. Fuck the war.

They're in love. Fuck the war.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Nature hath given us us a particular emotion, to wit, that of ridicule, which seems intended for this very purpose of putting out of countenance what is absurd, either in opinion or practice. This weapon, when properly applied, cuts with as keen an edge as argument. Nature has furnished us with the first to expose absurdity; as with the last to refute error.

The feeling came upon him one night as he lay asleep under his new Rabbit blanket with his two daughters and their mother that his Power had gone to another place; even the strength running deep in his bones fled.

Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.