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Quotes About Emotion

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
~ Dionne Brand
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
~ Lorna Luft
And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
~ Honore de Balzac
Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.
~ Doug McClure
Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing
~ Justin Somper
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
~ Colette Dowling
Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
~ William Dunbar
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
~ Mason Cooley
I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid
~ Adam Young
Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die.
~ Jennifer Estep
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
~ Zachary Cole Smith
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
~ Horace
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
~ Dan Barker
Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.
~ William Shakespeare
You get angry - death does that.
~ Annabella Sciorra
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
~ Philip Roth
Yes, that's what made my mother angry, no doubt about it. The ostentatious virility.
~ Philip Roth
Su madre? Dónde, señor?" "Muerto." "Hoy?" "Sí. This morning. Questo auroro. Aurora?" Italian again. Italy again, the Via Veneto, the peaches, the girls!
~ Philip Roth
had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
~ Philip Roth
How do you have one eyes?" asked Rosa, gently rocking him to and fro. "Por qué?" "La guerra," he moaned. "It cry, glasseye?" "I told you, it wasn't cheap.
~ Philip Roth
He did this despite its causing him to feel keenly not the presence he was seeking but rather the absence of one he'd never seen anywhere other than in photos
~ Philip Roth
The authority of beauty is a very irrational thing.
~ Philip Roth
Rascal Knockoff. I thought: Dostoyevsky fell in love with him.
~ Philip Roth