1,266 Quotes About Emotion

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows.

Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.

When your concern is about future safety, anxiety arises.

Anger and hurt are two sides of the same coin.

The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.

Neutral experiences are easily forgotten.