Quotes About Emotion

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

We weep when we are born, not when we die!

I love her still, for if you know anything about that kind of feeling, you know how close it is connected to hopelessness and thus is about the only thing in civilization that don't degenerate with time.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or people. They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting, fucking, drinking, art - poetry for intense emotion, the music that accompanied the heroic drinking with which each day ended, bewitching ornament for one's person and possessions.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

In so-called moral decisions, emotion always trumps reason.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Mie love ys dedde,Gon to hys death-bedde,Al under the wyllowe-tree.

Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.

Emotion in the heart is like poison in a substance, like fire latent in reeds-one ought to be aware of this. Therefore, as superior people do their work, they do not feel exalted when given status, do not feel aggrandized when honored, do not pay attention when treated familiarly, do not become suspicious when treated with aloofness, and cannot be abased. Thus they cannot be moved by emotions.

Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

The stage is near and dear to me.