Emotions Quotes

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

~ Nick Hornby

You've got to hide your love away. You can't just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.

~ J. Sterling

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

~ Demi Lovato

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

~ Temple Grandin

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

~ Pete Doherty

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

~ Richard Rohr

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

~ Voltaire

All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.

~ Marilyn Van Derbur

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph, the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

~ Paul Stewart

Intensity of connection,Depth of emotion,Unified thoughts,No doubts in the significance of you.

~ Truth Devour

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

~ Susan Cain

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

~ Amy Vanderbilt

She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fraulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.

~ Virginia Woolf

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

~ Terry Pratchett

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

~ Rachel Hartman

...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

~ Meg Cabot

Emotions are messy.

~ Ottilie Weber

The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thing as whole, see all the islands and the routes between them. Up close it all dissolves into texture and incoherence and immersion, like a face going out of focus just before a kiss.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

~ Rohinton Mistry

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

~ José Saramago

Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.

~ Marc Bekoff

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.

~ James Jones

You know he loves you, right? (Amanda)Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Ash)- About Nick

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.

~ Criss Jami

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. This in itself is not necessarily a problem; the problem is the emotional attachment that goes along with the thinking. Happy thoughts make me happy, but-whoop!-how quickly I swing again into obsessive worry, blowing the mood; and then it's all over again; and then my mind decides it might be a good time to start feeling sorry for itself, and loneliness follows promptly. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

~ Ann Brashares

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired

~ Paulo Coelho

The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.

~ Lisi Harrison

It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)

~ Cynthia Wicklund

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

~ Rachel Caine

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

~ Manis Friedman

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

~ Antony Sher

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.

~ Andrew Jackson

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.

~ Monica Fairview

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

~ Ayn Rand

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

~ Augustine Of Hippo