Quotes about Emotion

I'd soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!

He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.  'Come in! come in!' he sobbed.  'Cathy, do come.  Oh, do—once more!  Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!

My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart by mere contemplation of your physical and moral beauty.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.

And yet a little longer speak, Calm this resentful mood; And while the savage heart grows meek, For other token do not seek, But let the tear upon my cheek Evince my gratitude!

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.