Quotes About Emotion

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

They love least that let men know their loves.

It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?