1,266 Quotes About Emotion

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.He watched the door they would come through.

It is the mind, not the self, that feels (sad, happy, angry, etc.).

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

The things we feel deeply are the things that make us rich.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.