Quotes About Emotions

She walked alone in the rain, half mad with trying not to remember the soft warmth of Onnen's motherly breast and the smell of her clothes, trying not to think of the glint of firelight on Begu's escaping hair because then she'd remember it always, one more meory to torment her.

She wiped her eyes, her not-blue eyes, and walked on through a drift of rain so fine it settled on her sleeve like dew.

Watch men and women, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

Hild bent over and vomited stinging bile, then through her weeping, killed the man at her feet.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

My face is my most useful tool. I made it smile.

Hild nodded, but couldn't say anything. Soft, shocking echoes lapped at her bones and squeezed her insides. Gwladus kept stroking her belly and the echoes began to run into one another like ripples on a pond, and then slowly calmed.

How had she managed to get inside me, slip between my ribs and rest against my heart without me feeling it?

The lack was more in his soul than his body.

Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.

It was like the village all over again; she had won, but still must leave. She could not bear it.

Despite what is taught today, easy sex does not solve every problem. Sex does not solve even sexual problems.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Il n'est point de serpent, ni de monstre odieux, Qui, par l'art imité, ne puisse plaire aux yeux ; D'un pinceau délicat l'artifice agréable Du plus affreux objet fait un objet aimable. Ainsi, pour nous charmer, la Tragédie en pleurs D'Œdipe tout sanglant fit parler les douleurs, D'Oreste parricide exprima les alarmes, Et, pour nous divertir, nous arracha des larmes.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

Je ne connais, disait Tatiana, aucune étreinte qui soit feinte. Toutes les étreintes sont par définition spontanées. Le jour où elles ne seront que le résultat musculaire de pensées calculatrices, l'humanité s'en ira, sang ancien, couler hors de nous.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.