Emotion Quotes

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that also.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.