Emotion Quotes

The Crying Game(Boy George)



See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre


Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ~ William James


Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain


When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie


To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini


Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ~ Thomas Tutko


The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn


How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy


Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh


Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. ~ Charlotte Bronte


But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh


When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently. ~ Bhagavad Gita


Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. ~ Robert Cialdini



Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling


The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. ~ Stephen R. Covey


Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson


The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein


Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Jareb Teague


Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. ~ Charles Kingsley