Emotion Quotes

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

She attracted him more than he liked.

The pain I felt was my father's pain.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.