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Quotes About Emotion

I've been like someone with a bad cold, all kind of shut up inside myself, not being able to hear other people. Just shouting out at them sometimes.
~ Penelope Lively
Her face, suddenly, contorts. The lips pinch and tighten. A hand crawls across the sheet. Lisa says, 'Are you all right?' 'No, says Claudia. 'But who is?
~ Penelope Lively
It is as though I were adrift, untethered. I don't think of her much, no more than I ever did, but something terrible is going on. At moments all is well, and then at others I think that I am flying apart.
~ Penelope Lively
Enough of Jasper. It should be clear by now how he fits into the scheme of things. Lover to begin with, sparring partner always, father of my child; our lives sometimes fusing, sometimes straying apart, always connected. I loved him once, but cannot remember how that felt.
~ Penelope Lively
É isso o amor. Manter a ternura pelo mesmo homem, embora se deseje outros a momentos diferentes.
~ Unknown
Olharam-se. Maravilharam-se. E o amor era a capacidade de se maravilharem a cada instante.
~ Unknown
Ódio vulcânico, tórrido, não o frio dos chineses que se consome com a vingança.
~ Unknown
As saudades não vencem o medo.
~ Unknown
Dac? ar putea s? gândeasc?, inima s-ar opri.
~ Unknown
In sexual love we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of another's body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of an idea we have. The onanist may be an abject creature but in truth he is the logical expression of the lover. He is the only one who neither diguises nor deludes himself.
~ Unknown
I love you. You pay my rent.
~ Unknown
the king was still vengeful. 'Tell the archbishop,' he said, 'that I hated him yesterday and that I hate him even more today. Tell him that I will hate him more and more tomorrow and every day.
~ Peter Ackroyd
a melodious melancholy manner of mirth.
~ Peter Ackroyd
She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes.
~ Peter Carey
Yet he derives emotional strength merely from the knowledge of her existence.
~ Peter David
but unable to help himself, he said sulkily, "It's the smiling
~ Peter David
El tiempo se me va de las manos y estoy furioso por la apatía de mis miembros. Y de la furia estoy a punto de perder el conocimiento.
~ Peter Handke
God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.
~ Peter Kreeft
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
~ Peter Kreeft
God loves us more than we love Him.
~ Peter Kreeft
But we can influence (not compel) each other's choices through the mediating channels of imagination and emotion. So can angels. They can't put judgments in your mind or choices in your will, but they can put images in your imagination and feelings in your heart. (Feelings don't compel you either; your will can choose whether to follow your feelings or not.)
~ Peter Kreeft
Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will
~ Peter Kreeft
I felt Aly's head settling into my chest, her arms wrapping around my waist. Hug her back, a voice screamed inside my head. But that was ridiculous.
~ Peter Lerangis
Someday, I knew, I would have to forget. But I would never forgive.
~ Peter Lerangis