Quotes About Emotion

There's only one things more contagious than enthusiasm, and that's the lack of it

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it love because precision didn't matter anymore.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

It's soft at the end. Not just the pain, but the world.

Horror is not a symptom it's a love affair.

Putting it in the spank bank for later.

Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses.

The emotional response to each tiny incoming sensory bit can tell the conscious mind if you pay attention to how you feel in the same way that musicians pay attention to sound a considerable amount about the meaning inside every particular sensory input that you experience.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

In one test, subjects were presented with contradictory statements made by George Bush and John Kerry. Republicans judged Kerry's flip-flop harshly, while letting Bush off the hook for his. Democrats did the reverse. Interestingly, the brain scans showed that the parts of the brain governing emotion were far more active during the experiment than the reasoning parts.

I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.

Art is a requirement for life.

Truth guides what you say while love guides how, why, and when you say it. When love is the fertile soil, truth becomes a more fruitful seed.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion… and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Imagine loving an animal for over a year and then one morning you get up and put it into a crate and drive it to the airport and send it to the guide dog school.

What I knew about love I could put in a thimble. It was akin to my knowledge of "red," for what did I know about it? I knew it was an important color.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.