Quotes About Emotion

Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad.

We remember more than we think we do. More than we want to, sometimes.

It was hard for her not to feel that a person loving her was making a big mistake, because she knew herself better than they did, so knew their love was given in error, and thus they must be some kind of fool. And yet it was precisely that misplaced love she wanted; someone who would like you more than you do; someone who likes you despite yourself; someone more generous to you than you are.

Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal—Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. "Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent topaz and ruby at four o'clock; cold and shabby at six.

When you lose all hope and all fear, then you become something not quite human.

he could sense her breathing, her temple against his jaw and her shoulder under his hand were warm, her hair smelt of well-brushed hair, he could feel the presence of her body...

Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart Or squash it flat? - a Bookshop Idyll

She wore no jewellery, just her wedding ring.

enkele grote gevoelens blijven het mensenhart bezighouden: eerzucht en liefde, eenzaamheid en honger, vriendschap en angst voor de dood - of verlangen daarnaar.

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.

Engang kom han med skjorten åpen og han var tykt lodden på brystet. Det er som en eng å lægge sig i! tænkte jeg, for jeg var så ung. Jeg kysset ham nogen ganger, det er på det jeg vet at jeg aldrig har oplevet noget lignende.

My heart understands all, and it no longer beats, it peals.

But has anything happened to you? Your face is so strangely distorted.    No, I'm smiling, he said. This is going to be my way of smiling. I want this grimace to be my hallmark.

Åh, kjærligheten den er en sommernatt med stjerner på himmelen

Når han sa noget ømt til hende fik hun en ål i hvert øie og vsr forelsket hun også.

dilsiz ve bitkindi benim kahkaham aÄŸlamak özlemi ta??yordu

His feeling for ivory was somewhat undeveloped.

Selv de små rosenrøde finner i hendes ansigt satte ham i henrykkelse.

But there was something magical about my idea. I had to admit, I felt better and happier when it was around.

and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

The actor does not live, he plays. He remains cold toward the object of his acting but his art must be perfection.

The verbal text of a play, especially one by a genius, is the manifestation of the clarity, the subtlety, the concrete power to express invisible thoughts and feelings of the author himself. Inside each and every word there is an emotion, a thought, that produced the word and justifies its being there.