Emotion Quotes

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.

~ Chris Matthews

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

~ Charles Dickens

When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.

~ Marc Bekoff

February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.

~ Albert Camus

That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.

~ Holly Smale

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Spiritualizing sex is actually a movement of energy—feeling and emotion—that rises within you and moves into your sexual physicality as an alive, tender, erotic, or passionate expression. Your bodies move without inhibition so all the energy can flow out of you and between the two of you. You allow spiritual energy to express its dance through you. Sexuality can be a profound demonstration of your love, and especially your freedom, to express and bond. Spiritual sex, then, combines how you express your love with the intentions or blessings you bring to your partnership.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

I have spent years ... clinging to the understanding that Iwas a defective biological unit .... This may truly be a valuableperspective for those who observe mental illness, but forme, as a subject, this tree bore only dry and tasteless fruit ...I have a chemical imbalance; I really didn't feel thosethings.I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really experiencethose things.I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really thinkthose things ...Here is an insight! The entire human drama of love, suffering,ecstasy, and joy, just chemistry.

~ D.a. Granger

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

~ Edna O'brien

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

~ Mitch Albom

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

~ Sigmund Freud

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

~ Patrick Ness

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

~ Albert Camus

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

~ Stephenie Meyer

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.

~ Haruki Murakami

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

~ J.d. Salinger

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

~ Angelina Jolie

Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.

~ Katie Mcgarry

My life is like an autumn leafI lie around unclaimed.The breeze blows me around,To be trampled under the feet of men.Natures cruel feast has bestowed me with pain,Pain of being a part,Just a part of someone.Pain of departing,Departing from that one.Pick me up like a rose,And hold me to your heart.Keep me there till he does not come.And when he comes do a good deed,Dig the earth below,And bury me deepFor I don't want to lie around,Unclaimed, unloved.

~ Amit Abraham

Love is a decision - not an emotion!

~ Lao Tzu

Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience

~ V.c. Andrews

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

~ Ann Brashares

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

~ Ray Bradbury

...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

~ Brandon Mull

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

~ Louise Erdrich

Can I touch you?”His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as his smile grew broad. “You don’t have to ask.” I reached out immediately but paused within inches of contact. He must’ve sensed my hesitation because he reopened his eyes. “What’s wrong?”I swallowed, utterly overwhelmed. “I don’t know where to start.”Mason’s gaze warmed . He wrapped strong warm fingers around my wrist and drew my palm forward, leading me where he wanted my hand to follow. When he set it on the center of his chest, right over his heart and pressed my flesh to his as if fingerprinting my soul to his. I blinked back gratified tears.“Start here. No one’s ever touched me here before.

~ Linda Kage

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

~ David Richo

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

~ John Steinbeck

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

~ Martin Luther

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

~ George Eliot

If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.

~ Tana French

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

~ Melina Marchetta

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

~ T.e. Lawrence

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

There's no such thing as emotion.It's only body chemistry in action.

~ Toba Beta

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

~ Duane Michals