Emotion Quotes

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Emotions are choices.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic form.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

I can hear people smile.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.