Quotes About Emotion

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends

People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before...

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love is the heart of the soul.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.