Quotes About Emotion

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

Love, you mock us for your sport.

He has the thousand-yard stare.

Soon, soon you'll scream aloud—what haven won't reverberate?

For the love of god, Oedipus, tell me too, what is it? Why this rage? You're so unbending.

I tell you the truth, you gave me life my breath leapt up in you and now you bring down night upon my eyes.

What love, what call of the heart can touch my ears with joy? Nothing, friends.

Your heart beats hotly for chilling work!

Tell me, why do you love misery so much?

Aber gewiß. Zum Hasse nicht, zur Liebe bin ich.

Oh love, you break on me like light!

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.

La angustia, sin embargo, no es hermosa por sí misma, sino solamente cuando aparece acompañada por la energía que sabe dominarla.

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a deep anguish, but whose lips are so fashioned that the moans and cries which pass over them are transformed into ravishing music….And men crowd about the poet and say to him, 'Sing for us soon again'- which is as much to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be fashioned as before; for the cries would only distress us, but the music, the music is delightful.

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.

Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of your body except the heart.

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.