Quotes About Emotions

Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection

I believe it IS a vice, almost, to read such a book as the 'Letters,'" said Mrs. Touchett. "It's the woman's soul, absolutely torn up by the roots — her whole self laid bare; and to a man who evidently didn't care; who couldn't have cared. I don't mean to read another line; it's too much like listening at a keyhole.

You idiot! said his wife, and threw down her cards.

Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.

He looked at her hopelessly. Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

I should imagine, that the influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as it is commonly believed.

It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.

The true lawgiver ought to have an heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.

I have often observed, that on mimicking the looks and gestures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that passion, whose appearance I endeavored to imitate; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though one strove to separate the passion from its correspondent gestures. Our minds and bodies are so closely and intimately connected, that one is incapable of pain or pleasure without the other.

If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it.

He oft finds med'cine who his grief imparts But double grief afflicts concealing harts

For louers heauen must passe by sorrowes hell.

But double griefs afflict concealing hearts, As raging flames who striveth to suppress.

I believe no one else can correct our feelings; they are pure, incorrigible.

People say young love or love of the moment isn't real, but I think the only love is the first. Later we hear its fleeting recapitulations throughout our lives, brief echoes of the original theme in a work that increasingly becomes all development, the mechanical elaboration of a crab canon with too many parts.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

Love is a source of anxiety until it is a source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit.

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a 'friend' – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things

I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending, particularly love that has never been fully realised. I might have hinted at that, but I doubt it. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. short story Sister Imelda

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.