Quotes about Emotions

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.

It's funny,' I said. 'It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love.' 'Do you think so?' her eyes looked flat again. 'I don't mean fun in that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling.' 'No,' she said. 'I think it's hell on earth.

They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

I learned one thing." "What?" "Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Leave me with my memories. With my true, beautiful memories.