Quotes about Emotions

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

I think," said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, "that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who can really feel it, is a king, and I envy nobody else!" He put back his pipe.

Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

When Clifford became really roused in his feelings about the common people, Connie was frightened. There was something devastatingly true in what he said. But it was a truth that killed.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

There had come into his forehead a knitting of the brows which was becoming habitual with him, particularly when he was with Miriam. She longed to smooth it away, and she was afraid of it. It seemed the stamp of a man who was not her man in Paul Morel.

Frequently he hated Miriam. He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account. When he was with her, he hated her for having

Her still face, with the mouth closed tight from suffering and disillusion and self-denial, and her nose the smallest bit on one side, and her blue eyes so young, quick, and warm, made his heart contract with love.