Quotes About Emotion

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united."3

reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.

To better understand the predicament of someone who is rational but emotionless, consider computers. Give a computer a program to run, and it will use flawless logic to execute it. But unless you give a computer a program to run, it will just sit there. Computers need a motivating force before they will do anything, and it is the job of the programmer to provide this motivating force. Damasio's patient was like an unprogrammed computer. His

His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Why art thou silent and invisible, Father of Jealousy?

What is it men in women do require?The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require?The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb."So I piped with merry cheer;"Piper, pipe that song again."So I piped; he wept to hear.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;But if once you let the ripe moment goYou can never wipe off the tears of woe.

There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.

I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.

Learn to look for the loss behind the loss and deal with that underlying issue. You'll get much further if you can show people that Loss A is really unrelated to the dreaded, larger Loss B than if you simply try to talk them out of their reaction to Loss A.

loss is a subjective experience, and your "objective" view (which is really just another subjective view) is irrelevant.

Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. Albert

No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy kind delight.

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold,Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

And many a poor man that has roved,Loved and thought himself beloved,From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

I had wild Jack for a lover.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

Love comes in at the eye.