Quotes of Emotion - somelinesforyou

“ All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Love is ironic. Only when you hurt someone, they realise they truly love you. We shall always fall in love with the people who break our hearts. ”

- Anonymous

“ It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... ”

- Charlie Brown

“ But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment, and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. ”

- Ho Chi Minh

“ Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. ”

- Thomas More

“ I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion. ”

- Anne Parillaud

“ Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one. ”

- Frederick Buechner

“ I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. ”

- Edith Piaf

“ The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good. ”

- Magic Johnson

“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”

- Millicent Fenwick

“ Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. ”

- Robert Henri

“ I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Sentimentality — that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ”

- Graham Greene

“ She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ”

- Josh Billings

“ The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. ”

- Marya Mannes

“ When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ The sentiment is changing. Airlines are bottoming, the 10-year note yield has bottomed, making it more attractive to be in stocks, and people are feeling more comfortable. ”

- Peter Green

“ A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ Allow motion to equal emotion. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ By starving emotions, we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped. By repressing them, we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou. Encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. ”

- Joseph Collins
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