Quotes About Emotion

The reason-emotion dichotomy, however, cuts off this possibility; by teaching that emotions are independent of thought, it makes permanent the feeling of metaphysical helplessness.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12

life without love, is no life at all

If there's no love, what then?

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

Je tiefer das Gefühl, desto größer der Schmerz.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The fear of death came over him gradually. It was as if somebody were striking his heart a powerful blow with the fist from below.

The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.

Sería una vileza enorme que yo la amase pensaba con palabras que no salían de sus labios; pero por el agudo dolor de su corazón comprendía que renunciaba a algo precioso, y así redimía una culpa aún no bien identificable

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

Gleichgültigkeit! Gleichgültigkeit an die Stelle der Liebe? - Das heißt, Nichts an die Stelle von Etwas.

People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else - Or else what? said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. Or else it doesn't, you know.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!

I wish I hadn't cried so much!

Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.