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Quotes About Emotions

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness.'
~ Marion Woodman
Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment
~ George Meredith
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
~ George Eliot
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.
~ Unknown
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
~ Aristotle
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.
~ Robert Anson Heinlein
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his
~ George Dennison Prentice
Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.
~ Jewel
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
~ Honore de Balzac
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.
~ Helen Rowland
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
~ Erich Fromm
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
~ Erich Fromm
Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love is not love until love's vulnerable
~ Theodore Roethke
Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.
~ Kay Knudsen
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything
~ Bill Russell
There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing so devastating as love lost.
~ Unknown
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
~ Baruch Spinoza
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her
~ Oscar Wilde
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
~ Ruth Gordon
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
~ Unknown
It's better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
~ Unknown
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
~ Willa Cather