Quotes About Emotion

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 

The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.

I threw myself down upon that small soft body, and her hand clutched me and tucked me home. She worked and strained in sweet agony beneath me. I brought her there. I heard her cry out and felt her quiver, and then I melted at last inside her in unutterable delight.

When you really love, you can never be hurt.

What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.

Words, the acid-bath of words.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

In marriage they legitimized despair," and "Every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.

she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.

I return, link by link, along the iron chains of memory.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

The funniest people are the saddest once

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears