Quotes About Emotions

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks, Already redd'ning in thy guilty cheeks.

The busy have no time for tears.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.

We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.

if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee.

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion.

And yet methinks the older that one grows Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

For there was soft remembrance, and sweet trust In one fond breast, to which his own would melt, And in its tenderer hour on that his bosom dwelt.

Away! we know that tears are vain, That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou — who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.