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Quotes About Emotion

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
~ Christine Keeler
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
~ Marquis de Sade
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
~ Juvenal
Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.
~ Dov Davidoff
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.
~ Charles Burnett
I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.
~ Frank Bolles
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
~ Edwidge Danticat
For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
~ Émile Zola
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.
~ Etgar Keret
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
~ Robert Frost
The nature of bad news affects the teller.
~ William Shakespeare
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
~ William Blake
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
~ John Donne
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
~ Walter Scott
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.
~ Lavinia Greenlaw
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
~ William Shakespeare
The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
~ Maaza Mengiste
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
~ Samuel Woodworth
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer
~ John Keats