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Quotes About Emotion

A trembling in the bones carries often a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
~ Llewelyn Powys, 1930
I am emotion and bone held together by flesh and reality.
~ Terri Guillemets
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
~ Latin proverb
Die down, O dismal day! and let me live. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strewn With colored clouds — large, light, and fugitive — By upper winds through pompous motions blown.
~ David Gray
...all my soul within me burning...
~ Edgar A. Poe, "The Raven"
I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins.
~ Terri Guillemets
Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you — but trusting them not to.
~ Author Unknown
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
~ Joseph Conrad
I love you from my head tomatoes!
~ Internet meme
I have so mushroom in my heart for you!
~ Internet meme
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "War"
My heart votes for you, and what am I, indeed, to dispute her ballot!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1859
In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.
~ German proverb
A wink is a little piece of your heart, a type of smile, a special link.
~ J.L.W. Brooks
Happiness is — winking at someone.
~ Author Unknown
Earth tilts toward Winter my heart goes tilty too the summer-fever cools to a more reflective hue
~ Terri Guillemets
Some writers have beautiful poetry inside that explodes from the pen into prose. Others hold their inner prose until it implodes to poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.
~ Terri Guillemets
Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.
~ Terri Guillemets
Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard.
~ Stefan Boldisor, via Goodreads
One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, and not my love to see...
~ Edmund Spenser, "Daphnaida"
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
~ Jewish proverb
Hope is grief's best music.
~ Proverb