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Quotes About Emotion

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.
~ Dinah Craik Mulock
It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
No one will ever have loved each other more than we did.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
L'amore? È una maledizione che piomba addosso e resistere è impossibile.
~ Dino Buzzati
Only his step awoke her – not that it was loud, for Giovanni went on tiptoe. There was no special reason for it, except that he was her son.
~ Dino Buzzati
Sesinde, tesadüfen ya da bir düÅŸ k?r?kl???n?, belki de gerçek bir üzüntüyü yans?tan bir titreme oldu.
~ Dino Buzzati
heyecan?n mutluluÄŸu and?ran tuhaf bir ac?ya dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü hissediyordu.
~ Dino Buzzati
hem sevinç hem hüzün ifade eden belli belirsiz bir gülümseme yavaÅŸça yüzünü ayd?nlat?yordu.
~ Dino Buzzati
deu-se conta de que os homens, ainda que possam se querer bem, permanecem sempre distantes;
~ Dino Buzzati
God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.
~ Dion Fortune
He looked round at Mona, who looked back at him with non-committal eyes. She had better control of herself than either of the two men, and was like the core of calm at the heart of a cyclone.
~ Dion Fortune
No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.
~ Dionne Brand
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
~ Dirk Benedict
Because if a woman learns to separate what she thinks from how she feels, she has a chance of making the right decision for herself.
~ Dirk Wittenborn
Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?
~ Djuna Barnes
Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you love so much that she can lie to you, and the Protestant is the girl that loves you so much that you can lie to her, and pretend a lot that you do not feel.
~ Djuna Barnes
Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?
~ Djuna Barnes
You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.
~ Djuna Barnes
I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.
~ Djuna Barnes
The heart of the jealous knows the best and the most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Fancy gallops to take part in that duel, unconstrained by any certain articulation of the laws of that unseen game.
~ Djuna Barnes
Nora aveva la faccia di tutti coloro che amano gli altri - una faccia che sarebbe diventata cattiva quando avrebbe scoperto che amare senza riserve è essere traditi.
~ Djuna Barnes
So then I whispered, 'What is this thing, Lord?' and I began to cry; the tears went like rain goes down on the world without touching the face of Heaven. Suddenly I realized that it was the first time in my life my tears were strange to me because they just went straight forward out of my eyes;
~ Djuna Barnes
Selles voodis oleksime unustanud oma elu, oleksime jõudnud mäletamise äärmise piirini; me kehad oleksid ühte sulanud, justnagu kujud vahakujude muuseumis on sulatatud ühte nende ajalooga, nii oleksime meie lagunenud armastuseks.
~ Djuna Barnes