Quotes About Emotion

La mia anima è un abisso tutto striato di febbri.

Damn my eyes. Damn my soul. Glorious!

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.

This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.

Aesthetics by its very nature is applied psychology

It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine.

whenever the emotion had reached its climax, suddenly it swung around and there followed a cosmic stillness. At such times I was remote from everything, and what had only a moment before excited me seemed to belong to a distant past.

Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311.

A work of art must relate something that does not appear in its visible form.

What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, now looks like a storm in the valley seen from the mountaintop. This does not mean that the storm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it one is above it.

This fact, as I shall later explain, has a direct and important bearing upon the interpretation of dreams. It is obvious that if you assume the dream to be symbolic, you will interpret it differently from a person who believes that the essential energizing thought or emotion is known already and is merely "disguised" by the dream. In the latter case, dream interpretation makes little sense, for you find only what you already know.

There is a sadness in animals' eyes, and we never know whether that sadness is bound up with the soul of the animal or is a poignant message which speaks to us out of that still unconscious existence.

Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.

Le noyau de toute jalousie est un manque d'amour. (p. 225)

I was unable to understand how a perfectly rational argument could meet with such emotional resistance.

This emotional value must be kept in mind and allowed for throughout the whole intellectual process of dream interpretation. It is only too easy to lose this value, because thinking and feeling are so diametrically opposed that thinking almost automatically throws out feeling values and vice versa.

I wish you had.

It came in horrible flashes, and Cassie found herself fast-forwarding, getting the gist but not dwelling a second longer than necessary on the actual details.