Quotes About Emotion

Love is never easy or guaranteed. Real love is a leap, you know. As you get older, you learn how hard it is, how hard everything is, how we never know if there's ground beneath our feet, or if we'll be hurt or heartbroken. But we leap anyway. You have to take that leap.

My dad used to say that giving someone a poem is like gifting them a feeling. Everything will change from black and white into color.

All the cells in my body seemed to race and freeze at the same time.

Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

It's not emotion that makes him gentle; it's instinct. He can be gentle even when he feels no emotion; he can be gentle when touching something soft. The way you're careful when you touch a peach.

Maybe it only hurt so much because my body was in a solid state . . . I always tried to keep up appearances, and yet at the same time the thing I really wanted, the one thing I truly desired, was my liquefaction.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are.

Elle approchait et sa plume légère au chapeau d'ombre, se penchait sur moi m'effleurant la joue. (extrait de « La Dame au petit chien », p.161, revu par Alain Bosquet)

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

Making someone fall out of love, particularly when it is the kind of love that is meant to be, is much harder than murder.

I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.

They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will.

Vix gave her a look that said everything he'd ever loved about her, and she looked back at him, her eyes full.

I can't imagine a universe in which i try to unlove her

A child is the root of the heart.

Madame de Staël herself explained the mainspring of her character with the simple words: 'My passion is my genius'. Just before her death, almost as if writing her own epitaph, she said to Chateaubriand: 'I have always been the same; lively and sad. I have loved God, my father and liberty.

You keep your love wrapped in bird's nerves...

Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.