Quotes about Emotion
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
- Victor Hugo
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.
- Victor Hugo
Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake... loved in spite of one's self.
- Victor Hugo
Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
- Victor Hugo
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
- Milan Kundera
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
- Milan Kundera
Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly everything for me but a woman.
- Milan Kundera
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. The brotherhood of man on earth wil be possible on a basis of kitsch.
- Milan Kundera