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Quotes About Emotion

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.
~ Terri Guillemets
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
~ Mark Twain
...[F]aith... A passionate intuition...
~ William Wordsworth, 1814
Blood is hotter than water.
~ Gaelic Proverb
A coward's heart panteth in his breast...
~ Homer
Sometimes "I'm fine" just means "I have the strength to carry on."
~ Author Unknown
Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.
~ Author Unknown
Fire is love and water sorrow.
~ Proverb
Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
~ Robert Herrick
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
~ Proverb
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.... these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts"
That a pansy is transitive, is its only pang.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1875
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.
~ Author Unknown
Grief is historian of the heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
~ William Shakespeare
A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Grief cries pain and sighs love.
~ Terri Guillemets
Grief is a species of idleness.
~ Samuel Johnson
What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds.
~ Madame de Luzy
Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.
~ J. M. Reinoso
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hate is misguided love.
~ Author Unknown
His heart beats only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.
~ Terri Guillemets