Top 100 Only Emotion Quotes
#1. I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
Darin Strauss
#2. He hated stupidity. It was the only emotion I had ever seen him display toward people - a
Ayn Rand
#4. Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure ...
Rohinton Mistry
#5. I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist.
B.B. Reid
#6. And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young
Billy Collins
#7. Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.
Ross Turner
#8. I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.
S.K.N. Hammerstone
#9. There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.
Beth Gibbons
#12. There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.
Suzy Menkes
#13. I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.
Flannery O'Connor
#14. Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter, and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
Charles Dickens
#15. The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been betrayed. Venne
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
Flannery O'Connor
#17. Sentimentality is only emotion you haven't proven to the reader - emotion without vivid evidence.
Mary Karr
#18. Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence,
Peter M. Senge
#19. She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.
Margaret Landon
#20. In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
Guillermo Del Toro
#21. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
Eckhart Tolle
#22. I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
Jack Nicholson
#23. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
Helena Christensen
#24. The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.
Drew Karpyshyn
#25. The only truths that last are the truths of the heart.
Marty Rubin
#26. You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
Marc Andreessen
#27. Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C.S. Lewis
#28. A MAN FINDS happiness so fleetingly, like the petals melting off a prairie rose. Even as you touch that feeling it dries up, leaving only the dust of that emotion, a powder of hope.
Louise Erdrich
#29. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
Roshan Sharma
#30. I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.
Raven-Symone
#31. It's not really outstanding when you're standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout
Munia Khan
#32. 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
#33. There are only two emotions from our perspective ... The one that feels good, that feeling of hope or happiness or love. That good feeling, that positive emotion, is guidance saying, that which you are thinking right now is in alignment with what you are wanting
Esther Hicks
#34. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Mitch Albom
#35. Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#36. beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.
Dan Simmons
#37. The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment: Either raise your expectation to match your desire -or lower your desire to match your expectation.
Abraham Hicks
#38. Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.
Brunonia Barry
#40. Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become I.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. It's hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.
Ashly Lorenzana
#42. Gabriel kissed Julia as if he knew her, as if she belonged to him. His kiss was passionate and full of emotion, as if every fiber of his being had melted and spread itself on his lips only to be given to her.
Sylvain Reynard
#43. There is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
Robert Musil
#44. The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
Armando Iannucci
#45. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.
Carrie Vaughn
#46. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.
Jules Verne
#47. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#48. Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.
Anonymous
#49. When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Samuel Fuller
#50. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
#51. When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.
Graham Greene
#52. Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only
William Graham Sumner
#53. Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
Luc De Clapiers
#54. You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
Rick Bragg
#55. My father used to say that hatred only hurts the hater; it does nothing to affect the hated. Which makes it an impractical emotion.
Sabrina Jeffries
#56. In depression, the meaninglessness of every enterprise and every emotion, the meaninglessness of life itself, becomes self-evident. The only feeling left in this loveless state is insignificance. Life
Andrew Solomon
#57. As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.
Chael Sonnen
#58. A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.
Doug Ferguson
#59. Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Dalai Lama
#60. Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
William Morris Hunt
#61. You are a sociopath, Adrius. You don't only do what you need to do. You wear whatever face you need, whatever emotion you desire like a glove.
Pierce Brown
#62. There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
Lafcadio Hearn
#63. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
Isobelle Carmody
#64. there can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving r=the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy
Michael McCarthy
#65. Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
Ashly Lorenzana
#66. Shaw took my hand, his fingers lacing with mine. "Happy?" he asked.
I smiled, my chest swelling with emotion. "More than I ever thought possible."
He kissed me, murmuring against my lips, "Get used to it. This is only the beginning.
Sophie Jordan
#67. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.
David Amerland
#68. It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#69. It was April the season of blood oranges, emotion running like the stream behind my house upstate, turbulent and thawing. I thought about how fragile people get when they withdraw from anything, how they become bloody yolks protected only by the thinnest shell
Chris Kraus
#70. Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
#71. Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon Only thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.
Napoleon Hill
#72. All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#73. Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.
Ellen Hopkins
#74. Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.
Anand Neelakantan
#75. Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.
Michael Steinhardt
#76. Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.
Jeane Westin
#77. Perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.
Daniel Kahneman
#78. 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
#79. I have too much emotion to only be a dick to the people who deserve it.
Kirk Lynn
#80. Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
Paul Cezanne
#81. There's no such thing as emotion.
It's only body chemistry in action.
Toba Beta
#82. The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
Sherwood Smith
#83. The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.
Antoni Tapies
#84. There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
Rene Maheu
#85. Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#86. I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing.
Jennifer Echols
#87. Feel thanks and it is impossible to feel angry. We can only feel one emotion at time. We get to choose which do you was to feel?
Ann Voskamp
#88. So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.
Lawren Harris
#89. Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief
Don Van Vliet
#90. I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
Henri Matisse
#91. 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
#92. The mind loves riddles but not the heart. The heart loves only to touch and be touched.
Marty Rubin
#93. In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.
Julia Glass
#94. It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." "Dorian, this is
Oscar Wilde
#95. You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.
Eckhart Tolle
#96. But shame, for Mannering, was an emotion that attended only failure; he could not be made to feel compunction if he had not, in his own estimation, failed.
Eleanor Catton
#97. Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.. We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.
Arthur Ransome
#98. Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it, it only makes things worse.
Paul Auster
#99. I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.
John C. Reilly
#100. Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide
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