Emotion Quotes

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

~ Oswald Chambers

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

~ Jocelyn Murray

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

~ Elie Wiesel

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

~ John Green

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

~ Neal Shusterman

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

~ Jean Cocteau

Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.

~ Amit Abraham

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...

~ J.d. Robb

A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.

~ Victor L. Wooten

Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.

~ Jay Woodman

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

~ T.s. Eliot

You can't plan someone else's future, and I fully plan to become someone else.

~ Stevie Mikayne

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

~ Taylor Swift

These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.

~ Rebecca Donovan

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

~ Sarah Mclachlan

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

~ Michelle Tea

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

~ Dale Carnegie

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. You know what's normal?What? She wiped away her remaining tears. Calculus.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.I love you! he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.I love you! Silas cried, as he followed.They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.

~ Anna Carey

A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

~ Lauren Oliver

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.

~ Carol Brearley

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

~ Yann Martel

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

~ David Eagleman

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases.

~ Willa Cather

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

~ Isabel Allende

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

~ Peter Criss

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

~ Amanda Palmer

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

~ Billy Childish

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

~ Ice Cube

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

~ David Shields

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

~ Thomas Bangalter

My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.

~ Selena Gómez

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

~ John C. Wright