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Quotes About Emotion

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.
~ J.R. Ward
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
~ John Donne
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
~ John Sterling
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
~ Norm MacDonald
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
~ O. Henry
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
~ Oscar Wilde
You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.
~ Karl Pilkington
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
~ Vikram Seth
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
~ D. H. Lawrence
No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
~ Elinor Glyn
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
~ Franz Kafka
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
~ Alain Badiou
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
~ Dorothy Parker
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.
~ Dorothy Richardson
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
~ Edward Abbey
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.
~ Neal Stephenson
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at least of his age, didn't have the confidence to make major decisions from their gut like that. They had to build a superstructure of rational thought on top of it. But not Zula. She didn't have to decide. She just had to pass on the news.
~ Neal Stephenson
The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn't going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.
~ Neal Stephenson
Their eyes meet and her heart starts flopping around weakly, like a bunny in a Ziploc bag. He grins and waves.
~ Neal Stephenson