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Quotes About Emotion

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
~ John Adams
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
~ Joseph Addison
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
~ Joseph de Maistre
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
~ Joseph Joubert
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
~ Mike Oldfield
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
~ Peter Ustinov
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
~ Pliny the Elder
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
~ Plutarch
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
~ Ogden Nash
A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
~ Robert South
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
~ Ronnie Spector
Even bad men love their mommas.
~ Russell Crowe
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
~ Toni Morrison
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
~ Wallace Stevens
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
~ William Congreve
To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?
~ William Shakespeare