Highly Emotional Quotes

#1. Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

David Attenborough

#2. I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. Sometimes you're working in highly emotional scenes and you'll get lost in the moment. You're having fun with your friend at work. It's an opportunity to give to them as much as they've given back to you.

Milo Ventimiglia

#4. Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.

Daniel Barenboim

#5. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

Vironika Tugaleva

#6. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

Judith Lewis Herman

#7. I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Janet Jackson

#8. I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

Francine Rivers

#9. I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Sally Field

#10. Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

Alex Shoumatoff

#11. My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I'd like it to be. I'm a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.

Anne Jackson

#12. The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Daniel Goleman

#13. Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.

Alex Adams

#14. I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

Nicole Kidman

#15. Larry Geller's Leaves of Elvis' Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

Uri Geller

#16. (The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Anne Tyler

#17. I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan

#18. I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

Sue Gardner

#19. Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#20. My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Lewis Carroll

#21. Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship between my own bodily functions and the psychological and emotional issues that emerged.

Rudolph Ballentine

#22. No queen has had to fight an insurrection in half a millennium. And she takes it personally. But it was her fate to be a good queen that followed four poor ones

Paul W.S. Bowler

#23. You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.

Terence Mauri

#24. Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Tian Dayton

#25. People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.

Mystery

#26. Let me go where love is abundant, peace is plentiful, and joy is in the air.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.

David Hayter