Quotes About Emotion

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

My motto: Why think rationally when you can add a little drama?)

great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

Research shows that great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

Her eyes were bottomless wells that led to the permafrost of her soul." She

"Crimes of passion," that phrase drives me crazy. A man murdering his girlfriend is not a crime of passion. Premature ejaculation, that's a crime of passion.

I hummed love songs, silent love songs the words of which I've forgotten, sang to myself for nights on end, never tiring of praising my love in song, it was just as it ought to be and I dreamed the whole of Germany had exploded and just we two were lying, buried alive, somewhere in the last warmth of ashes, the air was used up and I gave her my last breath in one long kiss—that kind of stuff, I take nothing of it back, it was right and it was marvelous.

To live is to be happy to live. The usefulness of life ah! its expansion has not the mystic shapes we vainly dreamed of when we were paralyzed by youth. Rather has it a shape of anxiety, of shuddering, of pain and glory. Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.

It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the confessional. You felt that she came to it quite naturally, without transition, so completely did it posses her whenever they were alone.

No hay más infierno que el furor de vivir.

Quando si viene a sapere, o la si vede di persona, della morte di uno di quelli che facevano la guerra accanto a te e che vivevano esattamente alla tua stessa maniera, prima ancora di capire provi un colpo al cuore. È come se d'un tratto venissi a sapere che tu stesso sei stato annientato. Il dolore arriva solo dopo un po'.

Tu pleures, tant ta peine est grande, Dans un désert, sans rien savoir… Et moi, debout auprès du soir, Je suis triste comme une offrande

L'amour chante, silencieux, Les ténèbres ouvrent tes yeux.

We deceive ourselves a good deal about love. It is almost never what they say it is.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.

There is an attraction for you which does not exist for me, since I do not feel any pleasure. You see, we are making a bargain. You give me a dream, I give you joy. But all this is not love.

love is only a kind of festival of solitude

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

Laughter has no greater foe than emotion…. To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.

O maior inimigo do riso é a emoção.