Top 100 Human Emotion Quotes
#1. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
Dalai Lama
#2. Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.
Sally Brampton
#3. P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
Martin Seligman
#4. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.
Karen Marie Moning
#5. I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
Albert Brooks
#6. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.
Amos Wilson
#7. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.
Pete Townshend
#8. It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
Robin Hobb
#9. The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.
Taylor Stevens
#10. Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
Clarence Darrow
#11. A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.
Kiran Desai
#12. The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
Deke Sharon
#13. Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.
Todd Berger
#14. In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
Kenzo Tange
#15. I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.
Koren Zailckas
#16. At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.
Brendan Iribe
#17. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.
Linda Kage
#18. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.
Carla Gugino
#19. Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.
Bill Frisell
#21. The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.
Mark Hoppus
#22. Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards
#23. I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
Zachary Cole Smith
#24. You've certainly mellowed out ... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?
Hiromu Arakawa
#25. I don't have a problem baring my emotions in music. That's one of the reasons I'm glad to have music in my life. I'm pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.
Shelby Lynne
#26. 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
#27. Procastination can be very satisfying.' He laughed ruefully, 'As you pointed out, it may be a very human emotion, but there's undoubtedly something satisfying about pretending the world is fine and you problems will keep until you're ready to deal with them.
Chloe Neill
#28. Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Greg Lake
#29. To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
Isadora Duncan
#30. Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#31. But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.
Nadine Gordimer
#32. Emotion ... a weird sense of human ... strong handling make us numb ... loose handling make us dumb ...
Upasana Banerjee
#33. The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
Ze Frank
#34. You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls
#35. I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.
Jane Campion
#36. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.
Debasish Mridha
#37. There is so much more to the notes being strum from his guitar, behind everything is raw emotion, and it's proof that he is human. That his heart beats just like mine and that sadness can infiltrate those that appear to have souls made out of stone.
Melissa Grijalva
#38. Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
Irving Kristol
#39. Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.
Pattiann Rogers
#40. A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Dwight Yoakam
#41. Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
Napoleon Hill
#42. Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
Banks
#43. We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.
Michael Fox
#44. I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.
Colin Farrell
#45. When the world was young, the gods and goddesses birthed the angels, Joy and Greed, Beauty and Empathy and Sorrow, Fear and Fury, sparks of humanity. To feel emotion, therefore, to be human,
is to be a child of the gods.
Marie Lu
#46. Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#47. In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson
Eric Blehm
#48. I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.
J.G. Ballard
#49. Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#50. In the presence of ... civil war, to testify to humanity! ... to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense emotion of the human soul!
Victor Hugo
#51. As humans, we don't know what we should do. We don't have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate.
Tony Dungy
#52. If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue
Lisa Fantino
#53. For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Michael Chabon
#54. Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.
Alan Green
#55. I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.
Will Smith
#56. Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.
John Ruskin
#57. In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.
Fernando Pessoa
#58. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotion made the ply of human life.
Virginia Woolf
#59. Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness ... The realization of love always remains mysterious.
Gerald May
#60. Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.
Thomas Hampson
#61. Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
Margaret Floy Washburn
#62. I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."
Alex Abreu
#63. I believe that you wanted to love Marie - that you're enamored by the idea of love - but that you have no concept what love is. I think that's what you're searching for in St. Giles - some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#64. Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#65. Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.
J.L. Berg
#66. We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
Jeff Daniels
#67. Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.
Daniel S. Fletcher
#68. She traversed the spectrum of human emotion, and found herself to be flawed, but trusted God to accept all of her. Her vulnerability and openness led to her empowerment.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#69. Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May
#70. The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.
Michael Scott
#71. You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
Wallace Stegner
#73. Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
Marie Lu
#74. I totally allow myself
to feel every emotion,
whatever it is
and I observe it
from my inner space
of love and silence.
Human Angels
#75. I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.
Kinky Friedman
#76. Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.
Frances G. Wickes
#77. Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.
Li Shan
#78. Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
Storm Jameson
#79. Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.
Ray William Johnson
#80. I must confess, I honestly & intensely dislike emotion. Its a messy human default.
Daleen Van Tonder
#81. Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
Leonard Bernstein
#82. Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
Hans Selye
#83. Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
Simon Mainwaring
#84. Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.
Rush Limbaugh
#85. Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
Hugh Hardy
#86. When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
Tushar Upreti
#87. A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#88. It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
Alfred North Whitehead
#89. Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.
Vanna Bonta
#90. Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Zi
#92. I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P.J. Harvey
#93. Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
Charlie Ergen
#94. Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.
Dalai Lama
#95. Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.
Will Smith
#96. My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.
Catherine Hardwicke
#97. Oh, dear Hazel." Aphrodite folded her fan. "Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.
Rick Riordan
#98. In the span of a few seconds, my mind had traversed the extremes of human emotion, swinging from terror to exquisite relief and back to terror - entirely on the wings of thought: There's a rat in my bed! Oh, it was only a dream . . . Rat!
Anonymous
#99. It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Isaac Asimov
#100. I was experiencing every emotion, all at once, all the time, and it was, for the first time, completely undiluted. I was learning how to be human, and being human fucking sucks.
NOFX
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