Quotes About Emotions

A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?

Tears may be dried up, but the heart--never.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

Sometimes we pretend we don't care, because it hurts to admit we still do.

We've all been there, done stupid things for love.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes us stronger than all of our efforts to exorcise it may in the long run alleviate its burden. It may enable us to take up our destiny as creatures whose very vulnerability renders us capable of inspired and truly awe-inspiring love.

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

Creativity facilitates the work of mourning.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.

It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.

I think of the note. I want to say me too. I want to say I know. I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too. I want to say that.

I'm not depressed. I'm fucked up. I have been since I can remember. There's not a version of my life that isn't fucked up.

Hay frases que no se dicen para ser recordadas, sino por el placer de ver los ojos de quienes las escuchan. Hay afirmaciones que se hacen con la intención de provocar un gesto de asentimiento, negaciones que buscan la aprobación del otro; la complicidad surge de compartir instantes que no pueden evocarse.