Emotion Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of emotion quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.”
– Francesco Guicciardini

“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, “feminine” ones, that is, no anger please, but it’s okay to turn on the waterworks.”
– Una Stannard

“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

“One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.”
– Unknown

“Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ”
– John Sterling

“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.”
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
– Jim Rohn

“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”
– Claude Debussy

“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

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Too much emotion is like none at all. ”
– Du Mu

“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”
– Andre Gide

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
– Roger Ebert

“Eventually you come to realize that most people aren’t looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.”
– Robert Brault

“Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. ”
– Byron Caldwell Smith

“If you don’t manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. ”
– Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman

“We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.”
– June Carter Cash

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.”
– Jonathen Martensson

“Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear.”
– Daniel

“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ”
– Albert Einstein

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ”
– Mark Twain

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
– Helen Keller

“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

“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
– John Lennon

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’ ‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’ ‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’ ‘But it’s worse for me.’ ‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’ ‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
– Brian Jacques

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to have a word for “the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
– Jeffrey Eugenides

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
– Pseudonymous

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walphole

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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