quotations about emotion
It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident--everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much...
GLEN DUNCAN
I, Lucifer
Emotion to the satiated and quiescent, is a cold, dead window for the outward world.
C. GIBBON
attributed, Day's Collacon
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.
DON HEROLD
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
HELEN KELLER
The Story of My Life
Feeling is the oil of life.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Throughout our eighteen years of growing up we would gradually be able to master our own emotions just as we have mastered walking or math. It would be a learned skill, like walking, jumping, singing, reading, and balancing a checkbook.
JOHN GRAY
Men Are from Mars
There's no 'should' or 'should not' when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
FRED ROGERS
The World According to Mister Rogers
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
PASCAL MERCIER
Night Train to Lisbon
Emotions are the colors of the soul.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.
TIMOTHY LEARY
The Politics of Ecstasy
We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
True Love
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW
Relationship Rescue
Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Confusion
It was all very well to be emotional, but emotions should be servants, not masters--or at least not tyrants.
ROBERT BENSON
The Sentimentalists
When the eye sees nothing, the heart feels nothing.
PANAMANIAN PROVERB