Emotion Quotes

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing, you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.

We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Love is the white light of emotion.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.