Quotes About Emotion

If a traveller was to feel personally involved with (rather than guiltily obedient towards) 'the walls and ceilings of the church decorated with nineteenth-century frescoes and paintings...', he or she would have to be able to connect these facts--as boring as a fly--with one of the large, blunt questions to which genuine curiosity must be anchored.

According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.

It's more than mere coyness to refer to what they have done as "making love." They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings—appreciation, tenderness, gratitude, and surrender—into a physical act.

what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

Real desire lacks articulacy.

there can be a savage edge.

They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings – appreciation, tenderness, gratitude and surrender – into a physical act.

I kiss, therefore I do not think.

One could compare a lover's gaze to a barbecue skewer. Within the complexity of our nature, every lover pics up on certain elements and neglects others.

If in order to love, we must believe that the beloved surpasses us in some way, does not a cruel paradox emerge when we witness this love returned? 'If s/he really is so wonderful, how could s/he could love someone like me?' 2.

the way we speak is ultimately linked to the way we feel, because how we describe the world must at some level reflect how we first experience it.

Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally "together," when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

Being married may be associated with caution, conservatism and timidity, but getting married is an altogether different, more reckless and therefore more appealingly Romantic proposition.

nuestra forma de hablar está, en definitiva, vinculada a nuestra forma de sentir, ya que la manera en que describimos el mundo tiene que reflejar a ciertos niveles cómo lo experimentamos.

In the Proustian scheme, it is impossible to love someone physically.

We base our fall into love upon insufficient material, and supplement our ignorance with desire.

Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer.

Happiness is good for the body," Proust tells us, "but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

And if we were to show up at any college humanities department in urgent search of purpose and meaning, or were to break down in a museum gallery in a quest for forgiveness or charity, we would be swiftly removed and possibly handed over to psychiatric authorities. The intensity of need and the emotional craving that religions once willingly engaged with have not been thought acceptable within the contemporary cultural realm.

better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza.

It just appears natural to be struck by the beauty of some things and to be left cold by others.

Moi je veux pleurer maintenant, pas après ! Je veux être le premier parce que si je pleure après les autres comment on saura que moi aussi j'ai pleuré ?

She wasn't wholly infatuated, though she liked the way he looked; but, so too did he and that unfatuated her a bit.

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth, is a sentiment I can readily endorse. Her predicament is mine.