Quotes About Emotions

Zo zijn we Chlebnikov kwijtgeraakt. (...) Hij was de enige in het eskadron met een samowar. Op stille dagen dronken we samen hete thee. We werden door eendere hartstochten gedreven. We keken allebei naar de wereld als naar een weiland in mei, een weiland waarover vrouwen lopen, en paarden.

A heavy wallet is lined with tears.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.

I can calculate the motion of heavily bodies , but not the madness of people.

Schlimme Gedanken kann man zurückschieben wie einen dunklen Vorhang, aber heller wird es dadurch nicht.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

A basic difference in judgment arises from the existence of two distinct and sharply contrasting ways of coming to conclusions. One way is by the use of thinking, that is, by a logical process, aimed at an impersonal finding. The other is by feeling, that is, by appreciation—equally reasonable in its fashion—bestowing on things a personal, subjective value.

they [thinkers] can remember how feeling types respond to sympathy and appreciation; a little of either will greatly tone down a necessary criticism, but the thinker must express the sympathy or appreciation first.

You make a mistake if you don't try to figure out love," he said as he served the tarte citron- boldly tangy with a hint of sweetness held in his feathery pastry. "If you give yourself to someone without understanding it, you are only asking to be a slave".

Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.

There are some people who say they're able to 'compartmentalize' things, as though it is possible to put negative or distressing thoughts into neat mental drawers to be taken out only at a psychologically convenient time. It's a beguiling idea, but I've never bought it. In my experience, sadness and regret seek into one's consciousness willy-nilly, or they suddenly leap out at you with a snarl. The only real remedy is time…

Quand mon coeur souffrait, il commençait à vivre.

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.