Emotions Quotes

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

~ James C. Dobson

Highs must be followed by lows

~ James C. Dobson

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

~ Emily Brontë

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

~ Tina J. Richardson

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.

~ Rob Thurman

I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.

~ António R. Damásio

Dedicandote estos versos, una pulsera vieja, con tu nombre al reverso.I dedicate these verses, an old bracelet with your name on the back.

~ Internet

Love is a wishbone cracked in two.

~ Mirjana M. Inalman

Timing is only lack of enough emotions.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

~ Erica O'rourke

While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

~ A.j. Flowers

Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That’s why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

~ Cassandra Clare

When you have butterflies and you’re feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that’s when you’re most powerful... A lot of people, instead of honing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. There’s another quote that says, ‘A big challenge, a big pressure is like a fire, it’s like a raging fire. Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely, or you can gain control of this fire and harness it and you blow it right at your opponent, Dragonball Z style.’ That’s what I’m trying to do, trying to get my emotions under control and use this adrenaline to my advantage.

~ Jon Jones

Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions.

~ Hart Of Dixie

There are three states of matter but what state one is in that matters.

~ Amit Abraham

Although my work is to grapple with words, I have no words with which to describe and explain this feeling. Perhaps I write stories to show that in life there are moments, emotions, and events that cannot be explained with words.

~ Shahriar Mandanipour

Our bodies are reflective of our inner feelings. If we feel emotionally or sexually vulnerable inside, we may build a protective layer of fat over our abdomen or hips, the places where we hold our emotions and sexuality.

~ Hina Hashmi

.......Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.

~ Farooq A. Shiekh

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes the tunes of our songs are not melodious. Sometimes they are just without emotion, flesh, breath, or thought.

~ Nikita Dudani

...... Love is physiologically a legal battle lovers fight until death.

~ Farooq A. Shiekh

...... I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.

~ Farooq A. Shiekh

The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate.

~ Jasmine Sandozz

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.

~ Kristin Hannah

I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.

~ B.j. Novak

So many emotions flicker over him—astonishment, concern, remorse . . . and the always-present adoration. I raise my hand toward his face and he winces, as if anticipating a slap. Instead, I stroke his cheek and those beautifully expressive jewels under his eyes, then lift to my toes and press my lips to his. His flavor and warmth envelop me. He moans and cups my face on either side, kissing me deeper, but I pull

~ A.g. Howard

One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

~ T.s. Eliot

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

When the madness came, he would be like a man staggering along the rim of the abyss – which was his rage – and when the edge gave way or he missed his step, he might clutch at anyone within reach and drag that person with him over the precipice.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.

~ Jason Christopher Hartley

Memories are the only moments when smiling & crying takes place at the same moment.

~ Sujish Kandampully

Perhaps a better explanation for why it's so difficult to feel our feelings is that ALL emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain -- but even more, we want to escape reality.

~ Dan B. Allender

Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational, our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.

~ Patty Houser

A muffled curse comes from the doorway. I jerk my head to find Jeb there, blood drained from his face. His gaze is fierce yet dejected, a deep and gut-twisting wound I haven’t seen since his dad was alive and tormenting him.

~ A.g. Howard

We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.

~ Carl Safina