Emotions Quotes

Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.

~ William Paul Young

Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

We are often reminded how peaceful our world has become, a world without a police force or prison, where crimes and uprisings have nearly disappeared. But we’ve paid a price. The emotional root of all conflict — fear, anger, love, especially love — is prohibited. The goal of our schooling is to master a life of total self-control. A life without wrinkles, without feeling, without soul.

~ Jonathan Friesen

You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.

~ Toni Sorenson

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

~ Veronica Roth

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

~ Jon Meacham

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

~ Richard Rosen

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

~ Amit Kalantri

In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments. And the Monitors think I am just improving. They don't know the truth. I play laughter and frustration. I play feelings I cannot define. But the music defines them for me.

~ Krista Mcgee

While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart’s destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play. Scientists have proven, for example, that good mothering can override a disadvantageous temperament.(152)

~ Thomas Lewis

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

~ Winston Graham

Sometimes it's not that you fell out of love it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly in love to begin with.

~ Stephan Labossiere

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Well-being is not the goal, it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then.

~ Frederick Dodson

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.

~ Brandon Cella

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

~ Brian L. Weiss

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

~ Helen Garner

Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.* Other parts have a broader range of feeling. Because emotions are often held in certain parts of the personality, different parts can have highly contradictory perceptions, emotions, and reactions to the same situation.”*This explains many feelings, emotions, and doubts about the unknown haunting us at times.*Awareness and discovering the inner world may help, tremendously.

~ Suzette Boon

Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.

~ Suzette Boon

It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well.

~ David Cronenberg

..forever daydreaming of a kiss so sweet, angels weep..

~ Lenise Lee

DONNA: She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

~ Aaron Sorkin

Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us to let go as we begin identify with it rather than with all the hubbub of our moment-to-moment experience and our mental chatter about it.

~ Marcey Shapiro

Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.

~ Marcey Shapiro

Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak, act! Don’t just say, show!

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label codependent. They have worried themselves sick about other people. They have tried to help in ways that didn't help. They have said yes when they meant no. They have tried to make other people see things their way. They have bent over backwards avoiding hurting people's feelings and, in so doing, have hurt themselves. They have been afraid to trust their feelings. They have believed lies and then felt betrayed. They have wanted to get even and punish others. They have felt so angry they wanted to kill. They have struggled for their rights while other people said they didn't have any. They have worn sackcloth because they didn't believe they deserved silk.

~ Melody Beattie

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

~ Veronica Roth

At the end of the day it’s not ‘what looks good’ that matters, it’s ‘what feels’ good.

~ Maddy Malhotra

To experience positive/healthy emotions you don’t need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank.

~ Maddy Malhotra

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

~ E.b. White

I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

~ Geoffrey Household

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

~ Diane Ackerman

The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy feeling had an important place in the life of our Lord. “For the joy that was set before Him” He endured the cross and despised its shame. He pictured Himself crying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

~ A.w. Tozer

The realization that my grandmother, mother and I are one in the same awakens something mysterious inside of me. The person I am, someone I believe has more opportunities than my mom and grandmother in matters of work, relationships and love is true, yet I am still acting out old belief patterns. I am no better or smarter than either one of them. Our basic needs and emotions in life are the similar. Our experiences differ, but we are one and the same. This conscious awakening is surreal.

~ Sadiqua Hamdan

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.

~ Donna Leon

Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.

~ Paula Heller Garland