Quotes About Emotion

What is a sigh? That would be another good subject for a field study. Is it just a long, deep, audible exhalation of breath? Rose's sigh was intense but not subdued. It was frustrated but not yet sad. A sigh resets the respiratory system so it was possible that my mother had been holding her breath, which suggests she was more nervous than she appeared to be. A sigh is an emotional response to being set a difficult task.

Empathy is more painful than medusa stings.

Rose rested her pink eyes on my eyes. I removed my gaze like a traitor.

Minnen är som bomber.

A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly.

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.

There is a spectre inside every photograph.

Her sad girl breath makes me dizzy.

Tears fall from his eyes and arrange themselves on his cheek like Man Ray tears.

Beautiful breath beautiful breath beautiful breath. I loved every part of her.

I love him with as much protest as I can muster.

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily

If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

And what's the difference, after all, between real and unreal when people react precisely the same way to either?

The eyes of a man betrayed his heart.

What is in our hearts is never a one-way street. Only as children when we're too young to understand the signs do we love unrequitedly. If you love, it's because you feel its power reflected back on you.

She began to scream at the top of her lungs, "I wanna die! I wanna die! I'm gonna kill myself! I wanna die!" Everyone in the neighborhood could hear her.

I'll just be a memory," he says. "There are so many people who were so real to me in their lives, and now they're just memories.

the metamessage yields heart meaning.

Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there — tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.

Cine sus?ine c? nu exist? dragoste, n-a fost niciodat? îndr?gostit

There's a point in love where we all can choose to be in love or not to be in love.

The absence of love isn't necessarily hate. But I do hate what you did.

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. Jessica - Age 8