Emotion Quotes

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let...

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...

But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and cros...

The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his...

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself...

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an a...

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To ...

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come u...

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whate...

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a...

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their ...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible th...

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing a...

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spir...

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a st...

How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searc...

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain fo...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and o...

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...

Pique or policy. We would never know.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand ...

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically ...

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encount...

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gen...

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most ...

Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological ...

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of fe...

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectru...

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whate...

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...

Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute...

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is res...

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely desc...

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in commo...

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautif...

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does n...

She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not ir...

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculat...

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have row...

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m...

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ou...

February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary....

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves...

In a certain sense it might well be said that his was an exemplary life. He was one of those rare pe...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more th...

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i...

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of i...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporation...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that...