Quotes About Emotion

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

An angry man is unfit to pray.

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.