Quotes About Emotion

Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds.

I say I'm in love with her, what does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly she explains me to myself; like genius she is ignorant of what she does.

Fools stay in love. I am a fool.

The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

This isn't a head/heart split or a thinking/feeling split. It is emotional matrix. I can juggle different

Fictional characters are the original avatars for writer and reader alike. In this place of freedom we can choose who we want to be. And we can find a spectrum of feeling, experience, sexuality, even anger or murder, not available in daily life.

Writers always put themselves into their work. But you can't just untangle it and take it back to its source.

If there are only four possible endings to any story – comedy, tragedy, revenge and forgiveness –

Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.

In cetatea cuvintelor despre care v-am povestit, mirosul de fragi era mirosul caracteristic casei despre care inca nu v-am povestit.

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.

To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.

Figurábanse que yo podía escribir por oficio, como los demás literatos, cuando jamás he sabido escribir sino movido por la pasión

Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l'heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.

If I could have seen her just once again I should have been content to die at that moment.

On pouvait la voir sans l'aimer, mais non pas la posséder sans l'adorer.

Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles à celles que peut donner une honnête femme qu'on aime ; tout est faveur auprès d'elle.

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.