Quotes About Emotion

But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.

It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction. The longer the bomb is around without anything happening, the better the job that people do in psychologically denying its existence. It has become as abstract as the fact that we are all going to die someday, which we usually do an excellent job of denying.

Être aimé sans mérite, c'est la preuve d'un vrai amour

because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music

Et maleri er et dikt uten ord

People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And

You're still my ocean," he whispers.

I feel the weight of his chest on top of me as he finally collapses; I close my eyes and try to bring myself back to earth. I might have been safer at Dave

But when Robert touches me in just the right way, I forget. I forget what it is I want, or rather I forget that I want anything other than him.

No woman has made me quiver before, but she does.

I can touch you with a thought.

But the smile inside me never falters. And I know without a doubt that his inner smile matches mine.

I love the way you make me feel when you walk into the room, when you look at me.

but my heart's all yours, so I can't give it away. Not to anyone.

Robert," she whispers, "you have my heart.

Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

How about my heart? asked the Tin Woodman. Why, as for that, answered Oz, I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

Fico com o coração – respondeu o Homem de Lata –, porque o cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.