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Quotes About Emotion

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.
~ Anonymous
Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.
~ Henny Youngman
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
~ Bible
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
~ Thomas Gray
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness.
~ Time Magazine
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
~ J. G. Holland
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
~ Aristotle
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
~ Lord Byron
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
~ Joanna Baillie
Words that weep, and tears that speak.
~ Abraham Cowley
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
~ Charles Peguy
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove.
~ Matthew Prior
His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
~ Bible
Language is an inventory of human experience.
~ L. W. Lockhart
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
~ Walt Disney
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
~ Horace Walpole
Worry is a form of fear.
~ Bertrand A. Russell
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
~ Napoleon Hill
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~ Arthur Somers Roche
Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
~ Charles Reade