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Quotes About Emotion

Ma di cosa sei fatta, tu? Di quello che ami disse lei. Più l'acciaio.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. 'Hello,' I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me
~ Ernest Hemingway
How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oh, darling," she said. "You will be good to me, won't you?" What the hell, I thought.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He did not know what made him feel as he did. But
~ Ernest Hemingway
You love. And what about that you were talking to me all those nights? That's not love. Those are only passion and lust. When man loves, then he wishes to do something for that. He wants to sacrifice. And you want to serve.
~ Ernest Hemingway
THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a middle-aged woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?" "I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed," he said. "Yes. That's the good destruction. That's the way we're made to be destroyed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There never was another part of Paris that he loved like that
~ Ernest Hemingway
But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that nor thought that it could happen. So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It must be very nice to have a daughter. You cannot know how nice it is. It is like a second wife. My wife knows now all I think, all I say, all I believe, all I can do, all that I cannot do and cannot be. But now there is always someone you do not know, who does not know you, who loves you in ignorance and is strange to you both. Some one very attractive that is yours and not yours...
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't want any one else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Love, you poison my typewriter. How can I write with every key screaming? Since you've left, I've had hangovers they could name battleships after.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Show irony and pity.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I went back to Bill. He blew his breath at me to show how cold it was, and went on playing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
~ Ernest Hemingway
While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald
~ Ernest Hemingway
He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oh, I love you so. Please put your hand there again. It's not been away. I turned her so I could see her face when I kissed her and I saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.
~ Ernest Hemingway