Quotes About Emotion

Pensó en las palabras de Dostojewsky, que hasta ese momento no había comprendido: "Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo".

Me pareció más pálida aún. Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles

Pero sus ojos, así, llenaban aquel semblante en flor con la luz de su belleza.

romántico hasta sentir el estado de dolorosa melancolía que provoca una simple garúa que agrisa el patio

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo».

No sé si usted ha sufrido una impresión semejante; pero cuando ella me extendió la mano y nos miramos, sentí que por ese contacto tibio, la espléndida belleza de aquellos ojos sombríos y de aquel cuerpo mudo, se infiltraba en una caliente onda en todo mi ser.

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo

Aunque me habló con loco entusiasmo de la belleza de su novia, esta apreciación suya de la hermosura en cuestión no tenía para mí ningún valor.

Yo tengo alguna idea, como todo hombre, de lo que son dos ojos que nos aman cuando uno se va acercando despacio a ellos. Pero la luz de aquellos ojos, la felicidad en que se iban anegando mientras me acercaba, el mareado relampagueo de dicha –hasta el estrabismo–cuando me incliné sobre ellos, jamás en un amor normal a treinta y siete grados los volveré a hallar.

Y cuando no tenga más delirio… me querrás todavía?

Hatred is self-punishment.

When I fall in love... it's only... one time. -Luka

What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain?

What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.

A desgraça só atinge o paroxismo quando se esteve muito próximo da felicidade.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

She gives your son a lobotomy, and that's okay. Then she's mean to your dog and you get a divorce?

I don't think man is blessed with memory. More often he is cursed with it. I have too many memories.

would have died there. Right there. And she didn't say anything. She didn't even cry at first. She just handed the letter to Pop, and he read it, and then he put his head down on the table and began to cry.

Will you keep this?" he asked, holding up the pendant. "Please. Don't show it to your folks. But keep it, please. I'm not asking for anything else. You're going away. God knows when I'll see you again. I can accept what you say about your feelings for me. I have to. But what harm will it do if you take this, and then at least, I'll know that something I got for you is with you.

It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and spirit from it.

The tenets (and limits) of behaviorism are well conveyed in an old joke: Two behaviorists make love. The first then says to the second, "Well, it was great for you. But tell me, how was it for me?

Emotionally charged territory: What are the issues and ideas about which this person feels strongly? Should one engage these or avoid them? Can one mobilize this person around an area of strong feeling? How does one avoid the minefields that stand in the way of the desired change? Is this person motivated more by attraction to what she likes, or by fear of what she dislikes?

There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none of that of the heart