Quotes About Emotions

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Was there anything so real as words?

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.

And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.

At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Cuando uno está enamorado, siempre comienza engañándose a sí mismo y termina engañando a otros. Eso es lo que el mundo llama amor

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

You must admit, Harry, that women give to men the very gold of their lives.' 'Possibly,' he sighed, 'but they invariably want it back in such very small change.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

Hallward shook his head. You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, he murmured—or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Stop, Basil! I won't hear it! cried Dorian, leaping to his feet. You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past. You call yesterday the past? What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Shall Joy wear what Grief has fashioned?

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. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment .