Quotes About Emotion

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.

read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet.

Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage?

Ferme tes yeux à demi, Croise tes bras sur ton sein, Et de ton cÅ"ur endormi Chasse à jamais tout dessein."   "Je chante la nature, Les étoiles du soir, les larmes du matin, Les couchers de soleil à l'horizon lointain, Le ciel qui parle au cÅ"ur d'existence future!

When acted upon, hunger is a powerful emotion that is both exploitive and destructive to others. People mistakenly identify this desperate feeling with love and think of this primal longing as genuine affection.

Her burning emotion was not love or anything resembling it because it had fractured her children's ability to live and experience their lives. It had restricted them and led them to close off their feelings. It undermined their confidence and sense of personal worth.

The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends for me on whether there is love in life. Without a sense of it, or even the memory…of it, I think I would lose heart completely. (p. vii)

For emotionally mature individuals, on the other hand, a mutual commitment that expresses a desire to be associated with another person throughout life can be a positive expression of deep feeling rather than an attempt to find "ultimate" security.

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.

Any great "experience"—irrespective of how much bliss it may bestow—remains for some time, and then leaves.

The Buddha said anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip.

When we decide to do something, we decide on the basis of a feeling.

The desire to punish people who treat you unfairly or show you disrespect is deeply human. And admit it: though there's something unpleasant about being made angry, there's something pleasing about the feeling of anger itself—the feeling that you're rightfully enraged. The Buddha said anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip.

A sound by itself is a passive, not an active, thing, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. So to make it unpleasant, you have to go out and, in a sense, do something to it.

Por definición, los recuerdos son una versión personal, libre y subjetiva de un individuo, y no postulan jamás a ser la historia oficial. Tienen la modestia de las manos callosas, la singularidad de un rostro, la limitación de una forma particular de sentir.

Yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy caviloso.

Yo me dejo estar. Pienso, no, no pienso, mejor dicho, recibo de mi adentro una nostalgia dulce, un sufrimiento más dulce que una incertidumbre de amor. Y

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…