Emotion Quotes

Love is ironic. Only when you hurt someone, they realise they truly love you. We shall always fall in love with the people who break our hearts.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Thomas Hardy

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
Elizabeth Taylor

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
Edgar Cayce

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.
John Mayer

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.
Arundhati Roy

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie ten Boom

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
Anne Sullivan

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.” Margaret Cho“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
Margaret Cho

Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.
Michael Collins

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.
Charles Lindbergh

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.