Quotes About Emotions

I'm sad, but not with a definite sadness, nor even with an indefinite sadness. I'm sad down there, on the street littered with packing crates.

I envy in everyone the fact that they are not me.

Mi sono moltiplicato per sentirmi. Per sentirmi ho dovuto sentire tutto, sono straripato, non ho fatto altro che traboccarmi.

Never to feel one's feelings wholeheartedly and then to elevate that wan victory to the point of being able to regard one's own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass by one's joys and griefs as one would a person in whom one feels no interest.

Consoler of the inconsolable, Tears of those who never cry, Hour that never sounds — free me from joy and happiness.

I saw dawn break and felt happy; today I see dawn break, feel happy, and become sad. The child is still there but has fallen silent. I see the way I saw, but from behind my eyes I see myself seeing, and that is enough to darken the sun, to make the green of the trees old, and to wilt the flowers before they open.

The restless anguish of regrets, The weariness caused by so much futility, The surfeit even of imagined things

Only the happy govern, because to be sad it is necessary to feel.

El amor sin ternura es puro afán de dominio y de autoafirmación hasta lo destructivo. La ternura sin amor es sensiblería blanda incapaz de crear nada.

Hay que ser imbécil, moralmente imbécil, para suponer que es mejor vivir rodeado de pánico y crueldad que entre amor y agradecimiento!

Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor y todas las demás cosas, que no son más que partes de la vida.

Quien vive bien debe ser capaz de una justicia simpática, o de una compasión justa

Se trata de sentir simpatía por el otro (o si prefieres compasión, pues ambas voces tienen etimologías semejantes, la una derivando del griego y la otra del latín)

If you're not happy, you can't transfer any happiness to anyone else.

the uncensorable power of the simplest form of private literature: the letter home.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

No existe fuego ni lozanía capaz de competir con lo que un hombre atesora en el fantasmagórico mundo de su corazón.

She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom.

She was so mad she burned the corn bread three days in a row

Je ne me battrais pas pour chaque mot tombé de ma bouche, mais il y a des tas de choses dont je ne parviens pas à parler et pour lesquelles je me battrais.

je suis doué d'une sensibilité absurde, ce qui érafle les autres me déchire.

Quelques détails s'en allèrent, mais le regret lui resta.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

Aimer quoi que et non parce que.