Emotion Quotes

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have ...

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from w...

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-loo...

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real commun...

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for...

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for...

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but t...

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the...

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their he...

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed'...

She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Em...

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing w...

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable fig...

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fr...

But if I feel, may I never express?” “Never!” declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. ...

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience...

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his b...

My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walk...

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

Carry the fire.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emo...

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most p...

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you migh...

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. ...

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and ...

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.It seems to be true,' he admitted. ...

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to liv...

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of phys...

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say ‘love’, others ‘hate’, o...

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is...

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive re...

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride,...

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double p...

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see some...

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are...

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal t...

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making ...

Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emo...

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and...

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot defi...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

I feel an army in my fist.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at ...

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his lov...

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, ri...

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distan...

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air an...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into acco...

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of...

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not c...

In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex...

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of na...

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more complet...

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking roo...

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really y...

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I ne...

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings spr...

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

Anger is a brief madness.

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of ...