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Quotes About Emotion

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
~ George Eliot
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
~ H. L. Mencken
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
~ Matthew Henry
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
~ Paulo Coelho
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
~ Plato
A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!
~ Ono no Komachi
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
~ Ouida
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
~ Carlos Fuentes
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!
~ Rumi
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
~ Andre Maurois
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
~ Bentley Little
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
~ Carlos Santana
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
~ Martha Graham
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
~ Quentin Crisp
I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.
~ Heather Mills
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
~ Helen Rowland
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
~ Jeph Jacques