Quotes About Emotions

You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one is striving to forsake its brother.

This is another one of those creatures whom, like the pelican, I have fed with the blood of my own heart... There were special circumstances close at hand, urgent, troubling me, and they resulted in the state of mind that produced Werther. I had lived, loved, and suffered much... That's what it was.

Ah, lo que yo sé, lo puede saber cualquiera: mi corazón lo tengo yo solamente.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son

God knows, I often lie down to sleep with the desire, even sometimes the hope, not to wake up again.

Often do I strive to allay the burning fever of my blood; and you have never witnessed anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as my heart. But need I confess this to you, my dear friend, who have so often endured the anguish of witnessing my sudden transitions from sorrow to immoderate joy, and from sweet melancholy to violent passions? I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy. Do not mention this again: there are people who would censure me for it.

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Sometimes life is truly woeful.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.