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Quotes About Emotion

What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
~ Wilkie Collins
I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.
~ Wilkie Collins
see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own.
~ Wilkie Collins
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
~ Wilkie Collins
Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.
~ Wilkie Collins
Did you fall asleep? No. I couldn't sleep that night. You were restless? I was thinking of you. The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.
~ Wilkie Collins
Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone
~ Wilkie Collins
Magdalen drew further and further back. A twig from a tree near caught her cloak; she turned petulantly, broke it off, and threw it on the ground. What right have you to question me? she broke out on a sudden. Whether I like Frank, or whether I don't, what interest is it of yours? As she said the words, she abruptly stepped forward to pass her sister and return to the house.
~ Wilkie Collins
You don't have to speak at all— I know what you'd say… - Laura
~ Wilkie Collins
My dear friend! what is there extraordinary in that? They are all in love with some other man. Who gets the first of a woman's heart? In all my experience I have never yet met with the man who was Number One. Number Two, sometimes. Number Three, Four, Five, often. Number One, never! He exists, of course—but, I have not met with him.
~ Wilkie Collins
Observe, dear lady, what a light is dying on the trees! Does it penetrate your heart, as it penetrates mine?
~ Wilkie Collins
Erkekler bize söyledikleri ac? sözleri ne kadar iyi hat?rlad???m?z? ve can?m?z? nas?l yakt?klar?n? pek bilmezler.
~ Wilkie Collins
Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known.
~ Wilkie Collins
Forgive me, dear Mr. Troy! I am very unhappy, and very unreasonable—but I am only a woman, and you must not expect too much from me.
~ Wilkie Collins
Her heart beat as if it would suffocate her. She had kept her promise bravely. The whole story of her life, from the time of the home-wreck at Combe-Raven to the time when she had destroyed the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all laid before him. Nothing that she had done, nothing even that she had thought, had been concealed from his knowledge.
~ Wilkie Collins
Don't doubt my courage, Walter, it's my weakness that cries, not me.
~ Wilkie Collins
expression—nothing
~ Wilkie Collins
the thought of you, my dears, mounts like blood to my head...
~ Wilkie Collins
heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear!
~ Wilkie Collins
yorgun gözlerimi kapay?p çevremdeki dünyay?, tepemdeki güneÅŸi unuttum. Onun bana geri gelmesini bekledim. Ah, sevgilim! Sevgilim! Art?k sana içimi dökebilirim! Sanki daha dün ayr?lm???z gibi, sanki daha dün senin o güzel elin elimdeydi, sanki en son dün görmüÅŸtüm seni. Sevgilim! Sevgilim!
~ Wilkie Collins
I found her at the head of the sofa when I returned. She was just touching his forehead with her lips. I shook my head as soberly as I could and pointed to her chair. She looked back at me with a bright smile and a charming colour in her face. You would have done it, she whispered. In my place.
~ Wilkie Collins
The answer almost unmanned me.
~ Wilkie Collins