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Quotes About Emotion

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Art is communication.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love is the one surprise.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But I'm not patient! cried Meg passionately. I've never been patient!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Idiot," Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. "Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Yet there are times when for no logical reason I feel an almost unbearable sense of isolation. Not only am I divided in myself, my underwater and above-water selves separated, but I feel wrenched away from everybody around me. This is part of being human, this knowing that we are all part of one another, inextricably involved; and at the same time alone, irrevocably alone.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You don't know how lucky you are to be loved. Meg said in a startled way, I guess I never thought of that. I guess I just took it for granted.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I hate it! Charles Wallace cried passionately. I hate the Dark Thing!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It is the nature of love to create, and no matter what we do to creation, that love is still there, creating; in the young man who is holding his jacket closed across his chest; in you; in me.
~ Madeleine L'Engle