Quotes About Emotions

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy. Hallward shook his head. "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured -"or what enmity is, for that matter. You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic. Her tears and sobs annoyed him.

My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have some one with whom they could have scenes.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

Debe la alegría vestirse con lo que fabrico el Dolor?

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her. And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched.

There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.

Why is it that I can't feel this tragedy as much as I want to?

Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.