Quotes About Emotion

I have often experienced that, in moments as solemn as this, all human emotion is transformed into an almost mystic ecstasy, into a kind of enthusiasm, in which my whole being is magnified, or rather liberated from all selfishness, as though dispossessed of itself and depersonalized.

I used to imagine love as something volcanic

In the domain of feeling, what is real is indistinguishable from what is imaginary.

Le cÅ"ur me battait fort en poussant la barrière du jardin.

Aujourd'hui que j'ose appeler par son nom le sentiment si longtemps inavoué de mon cÅ"ur.

my veneration of her grew in inverse proportion to my self-respect

Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Words make love with one another.

All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." andre breton

But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

I am neither sad nor cheerful; the air here fills one with a kind of vague excitement and induces a state as far removed from cheerfulness as it is from sorrow; perhaps it is happiness.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Love is in essence subversive.

Moltabano, for a moment, felt moved. That astonishing, wholly feminine capacity for deep understanding, for penetrating one's feelings, for being at once mother and lover, daughter and wife.

E finalmente dalla gola sino a quel momento chiusa, serrata, il grido gli niscì, ma più che un grido un alto lamento d'animale ferito al quale, immediate, fecero seguito le lacrime inarrestabili e liberatorie.

Di una data cosa la lingua ne esprime il concetto, mentre della medesima cosa il dialetto ne esprime il sentimento.

I so want to meet the other women. I hear their voices, their weeping. Maybe they can explain to me why we're here. Or maybe I don't want to know.

There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.

Love is a certain inborn suffering.

I love your eyes, my darling friend, Their play so passionate and bright'ning, When a sudden stare up you send, And like a heaven-blown lightning, It'd take in all from end to end But there's more that I admire: Your eyes when they're downcast In bursts of love-inspired fire And through the eyelash goes fast A somber, dull call of desire..