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Quotes About Emotion

When I make a picture, I make love.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
Laughter is the orgasm of the face".
~ Alfredo Arias
I can work with passion because it is creative, but not with lust, for it is destructive only.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Of course, he smothered it in words—odd words, too—melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!
~ Algernon Blackwood
Te necesito. A tí, querida alma de mi pasado sombrío -se apretó junto a él tanto que su aliento le rozaba los ojos, y su voz cantó literalmente al decir -: Te tengo, porque tu me amas y estás por completo a mi merced.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Midway in my delight of the wild beauty, there crept, unbidden and unexplained, a curious feeling of disquietude, almost of alarm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
We are not sure of sorrow,And joy was never sure.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,Such fleet things sweet!
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
To have known love, how bitter a thing it is.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the world is bitter as a tear
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower; When these have gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and somber Delores, Our Lady of Pain?
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.
~ Ali Smith
I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning.
~ Ali Smith
Words were stories in themselves.
~ Ali Smith
In her dream, she slapped the past in its face.
~ Ali Smith
Myself, I thought about you the whole time. Even when I wasn't thinking about you, I thought about you.
~ Ali Smith
Want is quite a complicated word there, because there's volo, which means I want, but it's not usually used with people. Desidero? I feel the want of, I desire. Amabo? I will love. But what if I will never love? What if I will never desire? What if I will never want? Numquam amabo?
~ Ali Smith
Because when I think about what it was like to live with you, it was like all these things. It was like living in a poem or a picture, a story, a piece of music, when I think of it now. It was wonderful.
~ Ali Smith