Emotions Quotes

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

~ Oli Anderson

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.

~ Rachel Hollis

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

~ Danielle Esplin

You’re overly hostile, and that’s not a good thing. Pulsar, especially, are very controlled in their emotions.’‘So I’ve been told,’ I mutter.‘They’re like water: elegant, neutral in all feeling. You, though, you’re like fire: blazing, belligerent, existing on all feelings – so unsuited to being a Pulsar.’‘Maybe that’s why we clash so much, you and me, because we’re fire on fire.

~ Giselle Simlett

I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?

~ Ellen Hopkins

You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up, doubting and despairing must be removed, and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of grace must be raised.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The thoroughly guilty man has an advantage over all of us; he cannot be found more guilty of anything, since he has already found himself guilty of everything. This may sound like an absurdity - causing oneself extreme pain in order not to feel any number of little pains of lesser guilts and shames, but it has its own logic. A man more easily adapts to what he inflicts upon himself; as to his own judgement, he is already committed to it and willing to live with it.

~ Robert C. Solomon

All negative emotion originates from FEAR and all positive emotion originates from LOVE.

~ Renee Cefalu

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our emotions are the continuous waves and undercurrents that enable us to flow but in some instances, when hold on to them, suppress them or repress them, or express the destructively, they disrupt the flow

~ Mavis Mazhura

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

~ Matt Kindt

Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.

~ Cameron Jace

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

~ Ernest Cline

Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine

~ Robert A. Caro

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

~ Suzy Kassem

i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.

~ Sanober Khan

Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.

~ Sarah Winman

I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.

~ Michelle Tea

The notion must be put aside that emotions are irrational and we must see emotions for their true function. This will not rob the emotional content, it will merely explain it. Some things when more deeply explained provide greater sources of personal and corporate pleasure, not less.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

This is why questions must be asked and answered truthfully and why we must train our emotions to coincide with what is actually true. Doubt is a necessary part of faith, otherwise it is a blind faith and a deaf faith that deserves to be a mute faith. For, when Helen Keller, who was deaf, blind and had to learn to speak can come closer to the truth than persons with full sensory capacity, perhaps there is something wrong with our religious and spiritual traditions.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.

~ Julie Anne Long

Words do not come back to me easily,so I pull out my heart and wrap itin a thin sheet of paper, let the bloodseep across in stanzas of honestyand hand it to anyone who will take itso that the still-beating heart can tell themall my secrets, all my weaknesses,because if they are not hiddenthey cannot be taken and used against me.

~ Miriam Joy

No matter how long a shallow foundation supports a luxuriant structure, it will always collapse back to its thin rank, flouting out emotions.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

We are not moved by reasons but by emotions

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.

~ Bryn Hammond

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

Tears aren't just for babies. They're proof that you feel something and aren't afraid to show it. It's those that won't ever allow themselves to cry that are the weak ones.

~ Morgan Rhodes

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?What did they mean about you?”“Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

~ Ayn Rand

However apart, soulmates never part.

~ Shampa Sharma

Stars are everything and nothing that we think they are.They are their own world, but through an act of will we make them part of ours. They are the diamonds of the gods, the lights at a stadium where angels play a midnight game of baseball.They’re fairy farts that have been set ablaze! Mostly, they’re just an untouchable beauty that’s so far away, it’s the only place safe enough to store our secret hopes and dreams. When we see a shooting start, we all make a wish. But what nobody admits is how afraid they are of actually catching something that fell from heaven. I’m not afraid to burn. ~Hadrian

~ J.m. Evans

I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....

~ Elif Shafak

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

~ Ayn Rand

I have emotions,” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

~ Beth Revis

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time.

~ Larry Mickelson