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Emotion Quotes


"Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious."


"... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving..."


"Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most."


"Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again. Meaningless, I almost said, aloud."


"In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."


"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction."


"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."


"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."


"Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions."


"There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism."


"Only ,a lonely heart Can tell What it meansTo be lonely."


"But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season."



"And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight."


"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."


"Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."


"There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind— She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,’ Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.’"


"He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away."


"I'm surrounded by people and feel alone."


"For reasons he couldn't understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees."


"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score."


"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."


"Being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another's heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own."
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