Quotes about Emotion

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason's having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

I go, but I always remember you.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

But do you know what I'm most grateful for? Love. That has marked me more than anything else. I was incredibly lucky to have Roser. She'll always be the love of my life. Thanks to her I have Marcel. Being a father has also been essential for me; it's allowed me to keep faith in what's best in the human condition.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Boredom is rage spread thin.