Quotes About Emotion

the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth

Don't think of him. I can't help it. Take soma then. I do. Well, go on. But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

Rostros todavía lozanos y sonrosados (porque la sensibilidad era un proceso tan rápido que no tenía tiempo de marchitar las mejillas, y sólo afectaba al corazón y el cerebro) se volvían a su paso

Como símbolo de la marea ascendente de exaltación interior, la sangre subió a las mejillas de Lenina

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science.

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

C]harity [...], unlike the lower forms of love, [...] is not an emotion. It begins as an act of the will and is consummated as a purely spiritual awareness, a unitive love-knowledge of the essence of its object.

The energy which wanted to expend itself in physical passion is diverted and turns the mills of the soul.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

I am I, and I wish I wasn't

Quick! Quick! Our liddle genius is crying.

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.

I'd rather be myself,' he said. 'Myself and unhappy. Not somebody else, however cheerful.

En la misma reunión, un cóctel, en que yo la conocí. ¿Lo recuerda? No, no lo recuerdo. No recuerdo a nadie de los que participaron en aquella ocasión, salvo a Helen. Cuando se ha estado a punto de ahogarse, uno recuerda quién le salvó, no a los espectadores del muelle.

they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? "Of

I am, and wish I wasn't.

Don't think of him.' 'I can't help it.' 'Take soma, then.' 'I do.' 'Well, go on.' 'But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower.

She lives in the world of Romance, in the perpetual dream of Rapture

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

Hay incidentes de un minuto que producen más efecto que un cortejo de un año.