Quotes About Emotion

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

I think through things. It calms me. Otherwise I don't react as well as I could have. As I would have wanted to.

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.

There was no reason for Doane to tie a ribbon on Marcelle's wrist, and that was why she laughed when he did it, and loved him for it.

If there was one thing she wished she could save from it all, it was the way it felt to walk along beside him.

At the same time that we rejected the conception of a God who could be called loving or passionate, we ceased to attend to like qualities in ourselves.

Les gens éprouvent une grande souffrance, et nous passons tous notre temps à essayer de la refouler. Et quand on refoule une souffrance émotionnelle assez longtemps elle se transforme en souffrance physique.

He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive

She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature

The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.

The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule?

Vi?as ?st? dz?ve bija lomas, ko vi?a t?loja, vi?a jut?s dz?v?ka, kad iedvesa dz?v?bu savos t?los, n?s?ja tos sev?, kam?r pati dz?voja savu parasto dz?vi.

I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.

The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio.

The mouth was not so much cruel as lifeless; thin, rubbery and the color of veal.

Aunque dicen que sólo los imbéciles son felices, confieso que me sentía feliz.

It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.

escribir lo que no se había vivido, lo que sólo se había querido vivir, era también una manera —cobarde y tímida— de vivirlo...

Nostalgia is cowardice

Esti gelos? I-am zis ca da, foarte gelos. Si ca era asa de frumoasa, ca mi-as vinde sufletul diavolului si as da orice sa fac dragoste cu ea sau cel putin s-o sarut. I-am luat mana si i-am sarutat-o.

The simple fact is that he didn't write what he saw but what he felt and believed, what those all around him felt and believed. That's how that whole tangled web of false stories and humbug got woven, becoming so intricate that there is now no way to disentangle it.

Algunos hombres, algunas mujeres, tienen una sensibilidad más intensa que otros, sienten y perciben cosas que a los demás nos pasan desapercibidas.

I know what a man feels close to the woman he loves, but he's affraid to do anything

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