Quotes About Emotion

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

slow it is a slow business to grow a few words to say love

o afinador chegava na camioneta da carreira para consertar a harpa da dona Irene e horas num só acorde a aparafusar com o alicatezito melancolias erradas até que a vida no timbre que lhe pertencia e o tio emocionado - É exactamente o que eu sinto

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

sempre que passamos por esta fotografia a minha mulher a demorar-se numa espécie de sorriso voltado na direcção da infância

Once it becomes clear that feelings of emotion are primarily perceptions of our body state during a state of emotion, it is reasonable to say that all feelings of emotion contain a variation on the theme of primordial feelings, whatever the primordial feelings of the moment are, augmented by other aspects of body change that may or not be related to interoception.

The idea, in essence, is that cultural activity began and remains deeply embedded in feeling. The favorable and unfavorable interplay of feeling and reason must be acknowledged if we are to understand the conflicts and contradictions of the human condition.

Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are composite perceptions of what happens in our body and mind when we are emoting.

No hay ser, en el sentido propio del término, sin una experiencia mental espontánea de la vida, sin una sensación de existencia.

The head, the chest, and the abdomen were the most commonly engaged theaters of feeling. They are indeed the stages on which feelings are created.

We often end up learning that an emotion is happening not as the triggering situation unfolds but because the processing of the situation causes feelings; that is, it causes conscious mental experiences of the emotional event. After the feeling begins we may (or may not) realize why we are feeling a certain way.

Spontaneous feelings signify the overall state of life regulation of an organism as good, bad, or in between.

I refer to the eleventh and twelfth centuries as a uniquely fruitful moment in the production and meaning of desire. These centuries saw the first development of romantic feeling.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

Her bosom heaved, and she was just the guy to do it.

Do you recognize them now, Lando?" Varga was smiling. He couldn't breathe.

Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.

That shut her up real horrorshow and lovely.

You see, love isn't just something you feel. Love is something you become. It's like - going to a new country, and realizing that you never particularly liked the place you left behind. It's like a sort of tingling and - oh, I don't know - when she smiles I just want to start clapping or something.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.