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Quotes About Emotions

Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary's cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret wamrth within.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxicabs, bound for the theater district, I felt a sinking in my heart. Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside. Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No hay fuego ni frío que pueda desafiar a lo que un hombre guarda entre los fantasmas de su corazón.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I did not think - I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If truth is the end of life, happiness is the mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Téged is meglep? – Micsoda? – Hogy megint két ember vagyunk? Te nem szoktál erre gondolni? Hogy bárcsak egyek lennénk örökre, és aztán megint jön a csalódás, hogy mégiscsak kettÅ' az ember?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As he spoke there was in his heart that tremulousness that we take for sincerity in ourselves.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Az emberek folyton beleszeretnek egymásba, azután meg kiszeretnek egymásból.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary's cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret warmth within.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last unwilingly relinquished fragment of Rosemary. He could possibly have made up Rosemary - he could never have made up her mother.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Within the building the trio broke into Suppe's Light Calvary. Nicole took advantage if this to stand up and the impression of her youth beauty grew on Dick until it welled up inside him in a compact paroxysm of emotion. She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rosemary pojecha?a do Monte Carlo zgn?biona - na miar? swoich mo?liwo?ci - wprost bezgranicznie.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No... no... We never forgive those we can understand... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wouldn't think of leaving college. It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've decided to give you up, she said. Dick started - had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Goodnight, child. This is a damn shame. Let's drop it out of the picture. He gave her two lines of hospital patter to go to sleep on. So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That's an old-fashioned idea, isn't it?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gondold csak el, mennyire szeretsz most – suttogta Nicole. – Nem kérem, hogy mindig így szeress, csak azt akarom, hogy ezt sose felejtsd el. Valahol bennem mindig ott él majd az a személy, aki ma este vagyok.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Similarly we are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity--we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression – yet it was probably that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarcely tolerated guest at a party she was giving.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald