Emotion Quotes

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...

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture o...

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 ...