Quotes About Emotion

What I can tell you," she says, "is that his kindness makes me feel safe, but when I think about who I want to sleep with, safe is not what I look for.

If you trade passion for stability, you basically trade one fiction for another. Both are products of our imagination.

There is beauty in an image that highlights a connection to oneself, rather than a distance from one's partner.

Revenge often looks petty, but I have come to respect the depth of hurt it conceals.

The romantics refuse a life without passion; they

As Marcel Proust understood, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.

Affairs are an act of betrayal and they are also an expression of longing and loss.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. —Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

The forgotten of this country have a consistent history of turning on their champions, and I suppose the way working men and women have forsaken the very politicians who could help them most speaks of the primacy of emotion in politics. Perhaps the great decline of FDR's party, which was beginning in Henry Bonwiller's time, didn't come about because Democrats favored a logical argument over a moral one, but simply because they clung to the idea that either one mattered at all.

It seemed the fluid in my inner ears was not level and that the separation from Mary was the cause.

Ulla Sallert, wearing one of her famous facial expressions with about eleven ambivalent meanings and twenty-three enigmatic nuances, drops into a deep curtsy.

And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.

For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.

There was a deep boom, like the rolling in of an ocean wave. The hearse door had been slammed shut.

They raised their voices, cried out back and forth, as if grief could be fabricated into an argument to comfort itself with.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks it can prove. When

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

Only the past when you were happy is real.

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!

But risk perception may not be about quantifiable risk so much as it is about immeasurable fear.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

And while he was speaking, did we not feel our hearts burning within us?

Each of us learns to do this, Wordsworth said, in his first experience of love, when his soul "drinks in the feelings of his Mother's eye!

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.