quotations about emotion
He who embodies his own emotions in the verbiage of his tongue and pen, addresses an eternal audience; for human nature is identical, and its highest vernacular never changes.
MAGOON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Is "UGH" an emotion? Because I feel it all the time.
ANONYMOUS
An emotion is like one of those dashboard sensor lights, "No, check engine," right? I'm angry. "Oh, maybe this is a sign that I should get curious about why am I angry? What's going on with me?"
PAUL TEVIS
"Empathy: A Keystone Habit", InfoQ, February 2, 2019
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
FaceBook post, Jul. 7, 2014
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that's mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we're not alone.
FRED ROGERS
You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers
Emotions can keep you ill. When the brain warns of danger, emotion leaps into action; blood pressure increases, adenaline flows into the blood stream, muscles tense. When emergency passes, the emotions let up and we relax. But when the danger does not go away ... the emotions keep pouring out distress signals which may ultimately manifest themselves physically.
BLAKE CLARK
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes
Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.
HENRY HOME KAMES
Elements of Criticism
Loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life.
JOHN PAUL F. RICHTER
attributed, Laconics; or
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.
MARCEL PROUST
The Guermantes Way
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.
DAVE GALANTER
Troublesome Minds
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Supernatural Horror in Literature
I have feelings, but my pen cannot and will not write feelings; nay, my heart has no mind that can coin them into words.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Reminiscences
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
attributed, Flowers; Their Moral
Imagine that a strong negative emotion is like a mud swirling inside a fish tank. To get the mud to sink to the bottom of the tank so that you can have a clear view of the fish, the last thing you want to do is submerging your hands in the muddy water and try to push the mud to the bottom. The more you try to push it down, the more you turn it up. Similarly, you know, attempt to control a negative emotion, you may try to push it down. Unfortunately, the harder you try, the more it resurfaces.
HAEMIN SUNIM
Rest
No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.
HARRIET LERNER
The Dance of Connection
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows and its secret,
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE
letter to the Countess of Ossory, Jan. 19, 1777
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Stone Gods
This awareness of emotion is like the sun, which eliminates darkness. When you are aware of the emotion, it becomes powerless.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE
"Meditating with Beethoven", tricycle, March 12, 2019
People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in some particular case, they disappear. The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
P. D. OUSPENSKY
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution