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Quotes About Emotion

Signor di Josselin, io so che lei mi ama, e le consento di dirmelo».
~ Leo Perutz
Vittorin è lì in piedi, vuol vederla un'altra volta. Aspetta. Quattro minuti. Sei minuti. Adesso deve andare. Molte coppie sono passate davanti alla porta al ritmo della danza, facce sconosciute hanno guardato indifferenti dalla sua parte, forse c'era anche il viso di Franzi, lui non lo sa.
~ Leo Perutz
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~ Leo Rosten
There is a saying, "A patsh fargeyt, a vort bashteyt"—"A slap passes, but a word [that is, an insult] remains.
~ Leo Rosten
Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens: em amor, nós voamos, mas elas rastejam sempre…
~ Leo Tolstoi
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
~ Leo Tolstoy
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
~ Leo Tolstoy
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...
~ Leo Tolstoy
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion
~ Leo Tolstoy
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
~ Leo Tolstoy
she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
~ Leo Tolstoy