Quotes about Emotion
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
— 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
I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
— 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
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
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
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.
— Madeleine L'Engle