Quotes About Emotion

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

Love, yes. Word known to all men.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.