Quotes about Emotion

Music happens. It cannot be made.

Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world: And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you. She essayed to smile again and expired.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.