Quotes about Emotion
Toni did not speak English and I didn't speak Russian, but I felt as if we were making love that last night through our interpreters. I still don't know if she knew what was going on or not, but I suspect that she did.
— Audre Lorde
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
— Audre Lorde
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
— Ayn Rand
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...
— Ayn Rand
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
— Ayn Rand
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
— Ayn Rand
it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
— Ayn Rand
I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...I want you like an animal...or a whore.
— Ayn Rand
Do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same timeāof anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
— Stephen Colbert
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
— Henri Nouwen
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— Catherine of Siena
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
— Teresa of Avila