Quotes About Emotion

Comienzo a ver las cosas con mayor claridad. Ahora sé por qué el primer día no me fiaba de él. Sus acciones se hallan desprovistas de sentimiento y de imaginación. Motivadas por meros hábitos de vida, de aprehensión y de análisis. Es un saltamontes. Ahora ha saltado a mi vida. Mi sensación de repugnancia se intensifica.

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.

But that is poetry, I protest. Poetry is an abstraction.

Oh, Henry, I can't bear to be writing you—I want you desperately, I want to open my legs so wide, I'm melting and palpitating. I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. Hugo is calling. I'll answer the rest of the letter tonight.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

I write emotional algebra.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

Your eyes make me shy.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Parce que ma bouche se tait, pensez-vous que mon coeur se repose?

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

No estoy ni triste ni alegre; este aire de aquí te llena de una muy vaga exaltación y te hace conocer un estado que parece tan lejano de la alegría como de la pena; quizá esto sea la felicidad.

My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop.

Amiel écrirait que son âme émet des rayons noirs.

Tout l'effort de l'esprit ne parvient pas à recréer cette émotion de la surprise qui ajoute au charme de l'objet une étrangeté ravissante. Le beauté du monde extérieur reste la même, mais la virginité du regard s'est perdue.

je ne savais rien exprimer du transport nouveau de mon cÅ"ur; mais je pressais sa tête contre mon cÅ"ur et sur son front mes lèvres par où mon âme s'écoulait.

Whether they will or no, a link is created between two creatures who experience a common emotion.