Quotes about Emotions
But suddenly it would come over her, if he were with me now what would he say? Some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning—indeed they did.
— Virginia Woolf
He's read nothing, thought nothing, felt nothing, he could hear her saying in that empathic voice which carried so much farther than she knew.
— Virginia Woolf
The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.
— Virginia Woolf
I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.
— Virginia Woolf
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
— Virginia Woolf
Nothing happens here except that I write and write, and curse and burn.
— Virginia Woolf
In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.
— Virginia Woolf
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu
When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
— Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu
We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.
— Larry Crabb
Judith watched them drive away
— Lauraine Snelling