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Quotes About Emotion

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
~ Adam Smith
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
~ Agatha Christie
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
~ Albert Camus
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
~ Alexander Pope
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
~ Alice Hoffman
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
~ Amanda Hocking
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
~ Anais Nin
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
~ Anatole France
There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
~ Anita Stansfield
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.
~ Anthony Trollope
I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.
~ Arundhati Roy
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.
~ Ayn Rand
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions
~ Ayn Rand
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
~ Ben Jonson
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
~ Bernard Berenson
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
~ Bertrand Russell
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.
~ Bill Oberst Jr.
Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
~ Bob Newhart
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
~ Brad Pitt
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
~ Bram Stoker