Leigh Hunt Quotes

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I'm way too hypersensitive.

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. That would be the revelation of love. If you have a question of whether this is love, think about the effect.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.