Quotes About Emotions

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.

les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .

It is sweet to be loved, but to be able to love is to possess the life force. I love you. Therefore I am strong. Whatever my age, I am sustained by my own power to love.

The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger.

The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children

Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

But is strength comfort for a woman?

Man kann die Zeit nicht aufhalten, aber für die Liebe bleibt sie manchmal stehen.

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.

It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.

women are so strange and their tempers are uncertain, and mothers are the strangest of all, for they see fears and harms about their children where there are no such things.

But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.

She knew that men cannot work as women do, but have the hearts of children always in them

On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.

The truth is I cannot hate wholly enough to kill a man. I always know how he feels, too.

Déjame estar triste, es la única forma que conozco de estrujar la felicidad para que después no me pene.

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes?

So lonely, so trapped within his own cocoon that he can't even cry without a spectator to appreciate the effort it takes to shed a tear onstage.

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes? A casi todas las locas enamoradas les florece la voz.

Toda la vida te voy a agradecer esa pregunta. Es como si me estuvieras pidiendo la mano. Ella rió al decir esto, y enseguida agregó con demacrada seriedad: No juegues conmigo niño, mira que me lo puedo tomar en serio.