Quotes About Emotions

Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.

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.

In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were these: annoyance with herself for being incapable of governing her own actions, satisfaction that Sidney had won this very minor victory over her, amusement, embarrassment - an odd something between perturbation and pleasure - and above all else, a flutter of joyful spirits which made her feel she had strayed somehow into a most unfamiliar world.

By not one of the circle was he listened to with such unbroken, unalloyed enjoyment as by his wife, who was really extremely happy to see him, and whose feelings were so warmed by his sudden arrival as to place her nearer agitation than she had been for the last twenty years. She had been almost fluttered for a few minutes, and still remained so sensibly animated as to put away her work, move Pug from her side, and give all her attention and all the rest of her sofa to her husband.

Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering—which was by no means the case

The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.

It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

L'immaginazione di una donna è molto veloce; salta dall'ammirazione all'amore e dall'amore al matrimonio in un momento.

her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word last.

I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Não é o tempo ou a oportunidade que determinam a intimidade... é apenas a disposição. Sete anos seriam insuficientes para que algumas pessoas se conhecessem e sete dias são mais que suficientes para outras.

All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

We [women] certainly do not forget you [men] as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her.

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

Intuía que se podía confiar mucho mas en la sinceridad de las personas que a veces parecían o decían cosas imprudentes o precipitadas, que en la de aquellas cuyo estado de ánimo nunca se alteraba, a quienes nunca se les iba la lengua

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

There is nothing people are so often deceived in, as the state of their own affections.

As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.