Quotes About Emotion

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Elizabeth Bennet: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love? Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love. Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead Mr. Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection? Elizabeth Bennet: Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone." ? Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more