Quotes About Emotion

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

We weep for what we may never lose

The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing.

She did look sad. Not sad, exactly

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

Yes, she's electric and yes, she's a monster at times.

I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved … well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.

Isn't a mistress supposed to care about her lover?" she asked softly. Their glances met, and Nicholas felt something shift deep inside him, creating a moment of strange vulnerability. This woman could hurt him badly if he wasn't careful.

she made a purring sound in her throat and pressed into his palm

The difference between a gift and a curse can be how one feels about it.

That's either powerfully romantic

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous sonnet. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs Clare Morgan

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.

But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.

she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a flare-up she was experiencing, not just a bout of spring fever. This was full-blown passion.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.