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Quotes About Emotion

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
~ James Harrington
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
~ Jane Austen
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
~ John Gay
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
~ John Muir
Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
~ Jojo Moyes
I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
~ Joni Mitchell
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
~ Joseph Campbell
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
~ Karl Kraus
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
~ Charles Lamb
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
~ E. M. Forster
Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
~ Emily Dickinson
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
~ Epictetus
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
~ Francois Mauriac
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.
~ Garrison Keillor
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
~ Gilbert Parker
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.
~ Percy Sledge
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones