Quotes About Emotions

She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.

Si sus sentimientos son aún los mismos que en el pasado abril, dígamelo de una vez. Mi cariño y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero con una sola palabra suya no volveré a insistir más.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

El poder de separar dos personas que se quieren tan intensamente no está al alcance de una persona ajena.

She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind, in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with composure." (Jane Austen,"Pride and prejudice", Chapter 43)

She hated herself more than she could express.

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

JANE: Will you tell me how long you have loved him? ELIZABETH: I believe it must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.  So much the better.  I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do.  I am quite enough in love.  I should be sorry to be more.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here? Why, especially, when you called, did you look as if you did not care about me? Because you were grave and silent, and gave me no encouragement. But I was embarrassed. And so was I. You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner. A man who had felt less, might.

I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.