Quotes About Emotion

Life is upsetting," Irv said. "Like blood is wet.

I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Good writers are pleasing, very good writers make you feel and think, great writers make you change.

Sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things;

What we don't wrestle we let go of. Love isn't the absence of struggle. Love is struggle.

But he didn't say anything, and neither did she. Not because the words were deliberately withheld, but because the pipeline between them was too occluded for such bravery.

We have made unspeakable mean indescribable: it really means nasty.

Rage is properly the title of Homer's poem, and his audience may have known it by that name, not Iliad .

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Love is touching souls.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta - falou João Fulgêncio. - O facto de não se compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Mesmo não sabendo que era amor, sentiam que era bom.

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta. O fato de não compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

The taste of the apple ... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way ... poetry lies in the meeting of poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading.

El arte sucede cada vez que leemos un poema.

Uno está enamorado cuando se da cuenta de que otra persona es única.

Noches hubo en que me creí tan seguro de poder olvidarla que voluntariamente la recordaba. Lo cierto es que abusé de esos ratos; darles principio resultaba más fácil que darles fin.