Quotes About Emotion

Soon after her beloved young brother was killed, she asked me, "What is the purpose of grief? Does it serve any biological function?

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love. Men

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Cuando la belleza es universal pierde su poder de conmovernos, y sólo su falta logra producir algún efecto emocional.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

My brain has always governed my heart Sherlock Holmes

Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages

The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning, I assure you that the most winning woman i ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...

There are instincts which are deeper than reason. — Arthur Conan Doyle, from "The Nightmare Room," Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . (Delphi Classics; 6 edition May 13, 2011)

Pero el amor es una cosa emocional y todo lo que es emocional se opone a ese frío razonamiento que me parece la cualidad más importante del hombre y que antepongo a lo demás

Thank God!" I ejaculated from my very heart.

In certi momenti gli occhi di una donna si riempiono di una luce assai più eloquente di un fiume di parole.

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