Quotes About Emotion

Cuando se separaron lo labios, se produjo un profundo silencio, como si mil pájaros hubiesen suspendido repentinamente su canto.

Me siento responsable de la carne de esta mujer, pues me desgarra dulcemente como lo hacen otras cosas que son mías. Me estremece la dulzura de su presencia: cuando me sienta temblar se volcará como la hoja de un árbol sacudido por el viento y dejará que yo vea el lado vacío de sus ojos.

Stutter, stutter!

Come svanisce velocemente il ricordo delle azioni, a paragone con il ricordo dei sentimenti!»

he was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

My heart has been stolen by you.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

Your heart can become someone else's heart, too. I feel it. She and I are connected…! We're connected.

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Years ago you followed someone here, in love with breath kissing the nape of your neck, back when it was easy to be at least two places at once.

Inside my skin, loving you, I am this space my body believes in. — Yuself Komunyakaa, from "Unnatural State of the Unicorn," Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems . (Wesleyan University Press 1993)

Say something about real love. Yes, true love—more than parted lips, than parted legs in sorrow's darkroom of potash & blues. Let the brain stumble from its hidingplace, from its cell block, to the edge of oblivion to come to itself, sharp-tongued as a boar's grin in summer moss —Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Safe Subjects," Neon Venacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1993)

Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.

If you are really in love with someone, you never worry about the meaning of life.

Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so.

Humans are used to thinking about life as a drama of decision-making.

Suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world. It is a mental reaction generated by my own mind.

I choose to want to. This is of course false. I don't choose my desires. I only feel them, and act accordingly.

Because we intuitively understand that terrorism is theater, we judge it by its emotional rather than material impact.

Even in romance, any aspiring Romeo or Werther knows that without sacrifice, there is no true love. The sacrifice is not just a way to convince your lover that you are serious - it is also a way to convince yourself that you are really in love. Why do you think women ask their lovers to bring them diamond rings? Once the lover makes such a huge financial sacrifice, he must convince himself that it was for a worthy cause.

What I feel to be good – is good. What I feel to be bad – is bad.

The sacrifice is not just a way to convince your lover that you are serious; it is also a way to convince yourself that you are really in love. Why do you think women ask their lovers for diamond rings? Once the lover makes such a huge financial sacrifice, he must convince himself that it was for a worthy cause.