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Quotes About Emotion

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
~ Ralph Ellison
I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.
~ Ralph Ellison
Something in Mama's voice was vast and high, like a rainbow; yet something sad and deep, like when the organ played in church, was around Mama's words.
~ Ralph Ellison
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glück ist ein Parfüm, das du nicht auf andere sprühen kannst, ohne selbst ein paar Tropfen abzubekommen.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson