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Quotes About Emotion

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
~ Alexandre Dumas
When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…
~ Alexandre Dumas
Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins and I can hardly breathe.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?
~ Donald L. Hicks
Love is the language that transcends all others.
~ Donald L. Hicks
What all that means is that readers fundamentally want to feel something, not about your story, but about themselves. They want to play. They want to anticipate, guess, think, and judge. They want to finish a story and feel competent. They want to feel like they've been through something. They want to connect with your characters and live their fictional experience, or believe that they have. Creating
~ Donald Maass
It might seem that you shouldn't worry about what readers feel they're either going to feel what you want them to feel or not. But that way of thinking surrenders too much to chance. It leads to the erroneous idea that emotional effect is accidental. While it's true that you cannot control what each reader will feel while reading your work, what you can control is whether they will feel something in the first place and how strong those feelings will be.
~ Donald Maass
Thus, creating big feelings in readers requires laying a foundation on top of which readers build their own towering experience. What is that foundation? The more precise question is, what triggers readers to dredge up their own emotional experiences? One answer is this: It's the small details (reminders) used to evoke a situation that are preloaded with feeling.
~ Donald Maass
Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.
~ Donald Margulies
Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears.
~ Donald McCaig
Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
~ Donald Miller
Love makes us infamous when love is coldly true
~ Donald Revell
Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)
~ Donald Rothberg
You are already tearing my heart in two. What difference would more pain matter?" "If
~ Donna Fletcher
It's Quinn and I love you
~ Donna Fletcher