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Quotes About Emotion

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
~ Vittorio De Sica
Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making.
~ Vivian Gornick
Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama
~ Vivian Gornick
Lo amaba, de verdad lo amaba. Pero sólo hasta cierto punto. Más allá de ese punto, había algo opaco en mí que no cedía. Podía ver la opacidad. Podía palparla y saborearla.
~ Vivian Gornick
Some people," Rumpelstiltskin told the cats, "just aren't happy unless they aren't happy.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~ Vivien Leigh
Dersú –le dije–, te echaba de menos. En cuanto no estás, siento que falta algo.
~ Unknown
Si può vivere senza musica, senza gioia, senza amore e senza filosofia. Ma mica tanto bene.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Words without experience are meaningless.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Tears are the silent language of grief
~ Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination
~ Voltaire
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
~ Voltaire
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~ Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
~ Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~ Voltaire
Language is the measure of our lives, and what it means to be human.
~ Unknown