“Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.”

—  Charles Darwin, book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), chapter XIV: "Concluding Remarks and Summary", page 350

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation." by Charles Darwin?
Charles Darwin photo
Charles Darwin161
British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by… 1809–1882

Related quotes

George Eliot photo

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Lama Ole Nydahl photo

“The 'taking love' leads to feelings of attachment, jealousy, anger, and childish self-absorption, while the 'giving love,' intrinsic in the tenets of Buddhism, encompasses the whole enjoyable realm of love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.”

Lama Ole Nydahl (1941) Danish lama

Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)

Gretchen Rubin photo

“Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Jenny Holzer photo

“Expressing anger is necessary.”

Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist

Marguerite de Navarre photo

“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”

Marguerite de Navarre book Heptaméron

Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

William Blake photo

“Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

A Divine Image, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Marshall B. Rosenberg photo

“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

Marshall B. Rosenberg (1934–2015) American psychologist

François de La Rochefoucauld photo

“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que d'amour.
Maxim 324.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“Your Sensibilities are tempestuous — you feel Indignation at Weakness — Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred — His looks are "lovely in terror" — yet still remember, who are his Relations.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Letter to Robert Southey (29 December 1794).
Letters

C.G. Jung photo

“The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Related topics