Emotion Quotes

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 ...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story...

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have ...

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid...

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackma...

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that pl...

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused ...

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an...

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in t...

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

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

The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my kno...

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one mo...

Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do...

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotion...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from thi...

Love is a decision - not an emotion!

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. Tru...

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotio...

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the mea...

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosph...

A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only thro...

I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something...

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funn...

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Extreme in hating and in loving; Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike;In formin...

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on ...

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of ar...

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...