Emotion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.
-- Adam Lambert -
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
-- Adrian Lyne -
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
-- Agnes Martin -
Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
-- Alain de Botton -
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
-- Alain Resnais -
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
-- Alanis Morissette -
When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
-- Alber Elbaz -
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
-- Albert Camus -
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
-- Albert Einstein -
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
-- Albert Ellis -
At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.
-- Albert Paley -
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
-- Alex Webb -
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.
-- Alfie Allen -
Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
-- Alice James -
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
-- Alison Krauss -
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.
-- Alyson Noel -
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
-- Amanda Burton -
What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.
-- Amit Abraham -
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
-- Amy Lowell -
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
-- Amy Tan -
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
-- Anabel Jensen -
The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.
-- Anderson Cooper -
If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.
-- Andie MacDowell -
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
-- Andrei Codrescu -
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.
-- Andy Andrews -
Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?
-- Andy Mineo -
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
-- Angel Haze -
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
-- Anita Baker -
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.
-- Anita Loos -
The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.
-- Anjem Choudary -
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.
-- Ann Bridge -
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
-- Ann Coulter -
Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
-- Annie Lennox -
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
-- Anthony Head -
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.
-- Antoni Tapies -
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
-- Antonio Damasio -
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.
-- Antonio Damasio -
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
-- Ariel Gore -
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
-- Aristotle -
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
-- Aristotle -
The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
-- Armando Iannucci -
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar -
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
-- ASAP Rocky -
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.
-- Augusto De Luca -
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
-- Augustus John -
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
-- Ayn Rand -
We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
-- B. B. King -
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
-- Balthus -
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
-- Barbara Deming -
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
-- Barbara Fredrickson -
Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
-- Barbara Fredrickson -
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
-- Barbara Mertz -
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
-- Barnett Newman -
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
-- Baroness Orczy -
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
-- Bayard Taylor -
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
-- Bayard Taylor -
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
-- Bear Grylls -
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
-- Bear Grylls
