Emotion Quotes
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Beyle, Marie Henri
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Cocteau, Jean
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Collins, Joseph
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
Connolly, Cyril
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied
Dalai Lama
One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counterforces, like love and compassion.
de Balzac, Honore
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Dogen
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Eastman, Max
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Einstein, Albert
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is inpenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
Eliot, T.S.
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.
Freud, Sigmund
Anything that encourages the growth of emotional ties between men must operate against war.
Hardy, Thomas
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Haweis, Hugh Reginald
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.
Hitler, Adolph
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Hugo, Victor
Emotion is always new.
James, William
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
Parker, Dorothy
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Santayana, George
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Sterling, John
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
Twain, Mark
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.