Quotes About Emotion

#1. For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

Nikolai Gogol

#2. So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

Elaine Pagels

#3. I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

Natalie Zea

#4. Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

Virginia Woolf

#5. The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. Dr. Atkins continued, "Sometimes silence is a way to cover emotion or to hide true feelings. Sometimes the bridge between emotion and language is so vast or so scary that it's just easier not to cross it.

Melanie Dawn

#7. When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful.

Gary Zukav

#8. The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

George Edward Woodberry

#9. I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. It somehow seemed right that he'd never loved before her. That she simply was the emotion for him, the two equaling each other.

Kresley Cole

#11. There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Can't do this. There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion.

Blake Crouch

#14. People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But

Barry Eisler

#15. Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Amanda Seyfried

#16. It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

Ron Baratono

#19. Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Luis Barragan

#20. While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

Andre Rieu

#22. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

#23. Game designers are obsessed with emotion. How do we create the emotions that we want gamers to feel, and how can we really make it this intense, emotional experience?

Jane McGonigal

#24. Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Agatha Christie

#25. Don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

Tom Wolfe

#26. I don't ever forget things when it comes to you, Rebecca." A dark emotion flashed in his eyes. "I can't make up for the years I didn't show, nor will I try because you can never make up for lost time, but you have to know how important you are to me." -Hunter Beckman

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#27. At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true ... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Albert Paley

#28. I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

Charles Mingus

#29. Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Antonio Damasio

#30. An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

John D. Mayer

#31. How dangerous a master human emotion is!

Watchman Nee

#32. I don't need luck,' said Alex, 'I've got operational authority.' More sensation, laughter and questions. 'Authority to blow stuff up?' one of the freighter crew asked, cheekily. 'This is a warship,' Alex responded, without emotion. 'Authority to blow stuff up is in the definition.' Then,

S.J. MacDonald

#33. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotion except love.

T.H. White

#34. America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Helen McCrory

#35. The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Gardner

#36. Yet science articles, like Denise Grady's piece about the cough, made the Most E-Mailed list more than politics, fashion, or business news. Why? It turns out that science articles frequently chronicle innovations and discoveries that evoke a particular emotion in readers. That emotion? Awe.

Jonah Berger

#37. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

Sherwood Smith

#38. Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#39. Eyebrows that are lowered serve to hide the eyes, and therefore, hide emotion.

James Rand

#40. Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.

Douglas E. Winter

#41. With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.

Samantha Harvey

#42. Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

Gangaji

#43. Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

Lady Margaret Sackville

#44. In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...

Carol Tavris

#45. There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.

Corey Taylor

#46. Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

Watchman Nee

#47. Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Baruch Spinoza

#48. I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Thom Yorke

#49. Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.

Josh Becker

#50. That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.

Jerilee Kaye

#51. When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sex, the obstructions between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence are removed.

Napoleon Hill

#52. Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

Rebecca Stead

#53. I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

Bela Lugosi

#54. There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Marcel Dionne

#55. Love such a funny word; a worse emotion. It's crazy because it has the ability to give you strength, happiness and mostly belief. At the same time this thing call love can turn you bitter, insecure and allow you to lose sight of who you are in that same moment.

Mz. Baltimore

#56. He told her, I don't remember any other lover but you.
I don't believe you.
I don't. I know the facts of other lovers, but all the real, visceral memory, or any emotion has burned away. Those lovers happened to someone else, the man I was before I met you.

Thea Harrison

#57. Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Stendhal

#58. Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

Kid Cudi

#59. People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

Richard M. Nixon

#60. For those regarded as warriors ...
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.

Quentin Tarantino

#61. At first, I did not tell you any of this because...you were not supposed to mean anything to me. And later..." His voice became rough with emotion. "Later, I did not tell you because you mean so much to me.

Shelly Thacker

#62. Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#63. There's no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence.

Jay McLean

#64. When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect ...

Rush Limbaugh

#65. I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

Abigail Washburn

#66. A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

Philip Treacy

#67. It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.

Edwin Balmer

#68. Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion vocabulary diminished and their positive emotion word count skyrocketed. As

James W. Pennebaker

#69. I'd wanted emotion but couldn't find it here, so I settled for motion.

Anderson Cooper

#70. A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria's prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank. Rushing from the depth of despair, on the seraph wing of hope, she found herself happy. - She was beloved, and every emotion was rapturous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#71. No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

Sam Lipsyte

#72. I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

Kid Cudi

#73. Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

Frank Herbert

#74. Wear what suits you best, rather than following trends, and create your own style ... I go with a feeling or emotion and don't necessarily plan ...

Kate Moss

#75. Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

Alice Hoffman

#76. Next morning, Letty cabbed out to an IHOP in the xeriscaped burbs, several miles west of the glitz of the Strip. The emotion of the previous night still clung.

Blake Crouch

#77. Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

Gary Zukav

#78. Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

Madame Roland

#79. As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

Criss Jami

#80. When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#81. - It lacks glamour?
- It lacks mob emotion-appeal.
- Same thing.

Isaac Asimov

#82. Love is a treacherous emotion. You will fare better without it. We Medici always have.

C.W. Gortner

#83. emotion. I was a monument to our theft. I was an iconoclast.

Mike Avitabile

#84. It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.

Bob Colacello

#85. Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#86. I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

Florence Welch

#87. Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

Sara Sheridan

#88. I bring his hand to my lips and kiss his palm, my eyes closing, as I inflict as much emotion into my action as possible. "I love you," I whisper. The pang in my heart spreads, thundering through my body.

Trisha Wolfe

#89. I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#90. In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#91. I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all.

George R R Martin

#92. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.

Thomas Moore

#93. Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

Bill Kaulitz

#94. every emotion, every decision, every reaction can be boiled down to its essence- does it come from love or fear? Dark or light?

Jenny Klaire

#95. Emotion is contagious.

Malcolm Gladwell

#96. A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

David Morrell

#97. Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?

Cassandra Clare

#98. The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.

Bruno Dumont

#99. Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

David Jeremiah

#100. And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. 'Ulla! Ulla!' We

Stephen Baxter