Quotes About Emotion

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Poetry is dancing with words.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.

I'll curse all dull Sobriety, Fill'd with Wine's delicious Charms, Fill'd with a Mistress in my Arms.

But O! my heart, what shade can prove Thy guard against this heat of Love?

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

If you have not loved an animal, your soul remains unawakened.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

I'd wanted emotion but couldn't find it here, so I settled for motion.

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.