Quotes About Emotion

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." — Thomas Traherne

This atrocious child, whom even now she loved.

There's things in a woman a man may never understand.

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.

What the heart does not do, is not done.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding

Emily: But just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're all happy. Let's really look at one another... I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.

El hambre de golosinas siempre expresa un hambre de cariño no saciada.

I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

I will miss you, he said, and his words was both honey and poison, sun and moon in the same sky.

Hope, thin as a thread, sharp as a fishing line, cut into David's heart." p. 79

It was false, what everyone always said about tragedy. Tragedy wasn't not having someone to love. Tragedy was loving someone and not being able to express it.

When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.