Quotes About Emotions

geceleri yata?a uzan?r ama uyuyamazd?m. nefret edecek birsürü ?ey gelirdi akl?ma, ama sonunda yine kendimden nefret ederdim.

Travolto dalle emozioni, ripensai agli anni delle elementari e delle medie, quando ci obbligavano a leggerlo: non era una lettura per bambini, ma adatta a un lettore maturo e sensibile, A volte, serve l'occasione giusta per incontrare veramente uno scrittore.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write.

Per la mia imbranataggine in materia, ero come una casa senza porte e finestre: l'amore faceva su e giù, io sentivo il rumore dei passi, ma credevo che fosse lì per caso e diretto altrove. Finché, un giorno, si fece avanti e suonò il campanello.

Duygular kesin bir düzene girmekten kaç?n?rlar. Onun yerine küçük parçalar halinde feza boÅŸluÄŸunda serbest dolan?rlar. Ay?r?c? özellikleri de istikrars?zl?kt?r.

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.

Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!

Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.

Oddly enough, living only for one's emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.

What more could I have done when I did not know that to love is both to seek and to be sought? For me love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given.

She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?

The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover.

A un cuore che tenti di avvicinarsi, il cuore dell'altro sembra lontano

Besides, like a man who knows he is dying, he felt a need to be equally tender to all.

No one can know what a sacrifice it is for me to be gentle and docile.

I was born with a gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

But then another thought occurred to me: if we grant that human passion has the power to rise above all absurdity, how can it be argued that it does not have the power to rise above the absurdities of passion itself?

My conscience was pricked by the happiness of being loved. Or perhaps I was craving some still more decisive unhappiness.

Simplemente me resultaba doloroso que él pudiera tener interés en tales libros, que revelara su ignorancia, que yo llegara a odiar esa perfección de la que él estaba inconscientemente dotado. Me dolía, en resumen, imaginarme a este pescador aborreciendo su Jonia natal.

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.

Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.