Quotes About Emotions

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.