Quotes About Emotions

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.

I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture.

You mean you really want to marry me?" she asked with the air of one getting a thing perfectly clear. "More than anything in the world," I said - and I meant it. "You mean, you're in love with me?" "I'm in love with you." Her eyes were steady and grave. She said: "I think you're the nicest person in the world - but I'm not in love with you." "I'll make you love me." "That wouldn't do. I don't want to be made.

A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.

Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs.

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.

Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

Ma come sapete, la natura umana è quella che è..

I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Lawrence arrossì, imbarazzato, poi sorrise. Un uomo innamorato è sempre uno spettacolo penoso.

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

You speak of my manner to you being insulting. Well, once or twice, your manner has annoyed me " "I am enchanted to hear it," said Poirot.

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

Love is not everything, Mademoiselle," Poirot said gently. "It is only when we are young that we think it is.

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.