Quotes about emotion
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“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Love, Joy, Personality

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Thinking

“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

“I didn't think he was a robot… but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Guy, Thinking

“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”

Ian McEwan (1948) British author

Lie, Heart

“I guess I'm pretty emotional.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Lovers, Understanding

“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

Love, Life, Thinking

“Form follows emotion”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author

Love

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Dead

“Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

Children, Parent

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Love, Hate, Health, Dependency

“It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Battle for Skandia

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

People

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Fear

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Way, Feeling, Memory

“Knowing that you love me is not a source of amusement.” Sebastian realized that his hands were shaking with the force of the emotion that was pouring through him. “It is my salvation”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Dangerous

Love

“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

Feeling, Time, Personality

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Reality

“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Source: The Tenth Man

People

“I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: “You’re blue.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Life, Suicide

“The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with. Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But…" She shrugged elegantly.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Hate

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

People, Alcohol

“It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Life, Feeling

“Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Love, Forgiveness, Learning

“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.”

V. Vale (1942) American writer

Source: Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual

Tattoo

“Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“Emotional fuckwittage”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Variant: I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage.
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 58
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Life, Secret, Water, Chance

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Dead

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 1: Puberty
Context: During the 60's, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60's I never thought in terms of "love" again.

People, Thinking

“A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Feeling, Dead

“Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Time, Fight, Anger

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Love

“There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

Happiness, Feeling

“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

World, Dreams, Decision, Water

“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

Feeling

“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Feeling, Change

“We must never shed tears
That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Life, Tear

“That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.”

Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress

Source: The Dud Avocado

Question, Time

“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Pain, Pleasure, Feeling

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”

David Sedaris Naked

Source: Naked

People

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Way, Hurt

“Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Tohr laughed softly. "Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Rococo

Pain, Joy

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

God, Idea, Universe

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Happiness, Pleasure, Solitude, Appearance

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

Love, Dependency

“To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Heart, Personality

“Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Variant: Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.
Source: Diary

Weather

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Love

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

Response to FDA complaint (1954)
Context: Inquiry in the realm of Basic Natural Law is outside the judicial domain of this or ANY OTHER KIND OF SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION ANYWHERE ON THIS GLOBE, IN ANY LAND, NATION, OR REGION.
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

Error, Freedom, Learning

“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”

Yann Martel book Beatrice and Virgil

Source: Beatrice and Virgil

Truth

“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”

John Grisham book The Testament

Source: The Testament

Time

“I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Women, Time, Cry

“Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Secret, Feeling

“… Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Gratitude

“Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Thinking, Learning

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

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Feeling, Thinking

“I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Death, Hope

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."

[, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Light, Reading

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

Feeling

“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter

1950's <br class="br">Source: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119 <br class="br">Context: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!

Color

“You can’t think your way out of your emotions.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Way, Thinking

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Cry

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Love

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Love, Girl, Coffee

“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure…”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Sense

“The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Happiness, Music, Nature, Loss

“We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

Source: Bicycle Diaries

Future

“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

People, Beauty, Imagination, Thinking

“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”

Terry Goodkind book Confessor

Source: Confessor

Learning

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Personality

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Art

“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream…”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Love, Happiness, Feeling

“The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen”

Robert Greene book The 50th Law

Source: The 50th Law

War, History

“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Children

“That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Jealousy, Tree, Time, Anger

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Beauty, Art, Science, Dead

“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Future

“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

Heart, Hurt, Anger

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Truth

“Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Jealousy

“There was both love and despair in his voice.
He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that…”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Love, Change, Despair

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

Andrew Motion (1952) poet, novelist and biographer from England

Heart, Forgetting

“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

God, Truth

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Tear

“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Variant: The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Hurt, Personality, Hurtful

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Quotes about emotion
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