Emotion Quotes

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.

~ Jeff Lindsay

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

~ Ron Baratono

Love, one way or the other, in whatever form, matters every moment in life.

~ Shampa Sharma

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

~ Frank Herbert

He forced himself into good spirits.

~ H.w. Brands

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

~ David Platt

One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

~ Damon Galgut

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

~ Jean Thompson

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

~ Paul C. Nagel

We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.

~ Paul Newham

There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.

~ Philip Houston

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

~ Sherry Turkle

Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( Crystallization under an umbrella )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

~ Tim Weiner

We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

~ John Taliaferro

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?

~ Joyce Guo

No one can make us feel anything. We always have the authority over how we choose to feel about something. Never give anyone that much power over yourself.

~ Renee Cefalu

Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!

~ Anuranjita Kumar

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

~ Anne Enright

Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.

~ Susan Cain

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

~ Michael Braccia

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

~ Stephen L. Carter

I felt a new wave of irritation, squelched it as I kicked into scientist mode. First rule: block mind-set. Don’t suspect, don’t fear, don’t hope for any outcome. Observe, weigh, measure, and record.Second rule: block emotion. Leave sorrow, pity, and outrage for later. Anger or grief can lead to error and misjudgment. Mistakes do your victim no good.

~ Kathy Reichs

I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.

~ Frasier Crane

Love is not even an emotion so don't get emotional over it.

~ Amit Abraham

I’m a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don’t want to. I don’t know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.

~ A.j. Compton

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

~ Marty Rubin

Pique or policy. We would never know.

~ Roger Kahn

Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and—humiliation of humiliations—she began to cry. Right there in the street. “I’m so confused,” she said but it came out as a great honking wail.“Come here, you silly girl,” Phyllis said.The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry.A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children’s eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too.“I’m sorry,” Rosy said, and flapped her arms. “I’m sorry.

~ R.g. Manse

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

~ V.s. Naipaul

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.

~ Sarah Tomp

When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you.

~ Nutan Bajracharya

The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there's no running away. You can't escape it and you can't hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a swan dive into a bottle. Sooner or later you'll have to take a breath, let the pain rush in and get to the other side like your life depends on it. Because it does.

~ Natasha Boyd

The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well - the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, 'The heart wants what the heart wants'. Anything else just wouldn't do...

~ Charles R. Mackriel

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

~ George Friedman

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

~ Gemma Malley