1,266 Quotes About Emotion

It is an old-established custom for the hero of a story, when overcome by violent emotion, to run out into the forest, or at least to some solitary glade. This custom is a good one, because it prevails in real life. Mr Peregrinus Tyss therefore had no altenative but to run in a straight line from his house on the Horsemarket until he had left the town behind him and reached a nearby glade.

(...) it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.

Sometimes I feel like my insides are a raging flood of emotions when I look at you, but I don’t mind drowning.

Whatever poetry there is in life derives through the emotions.

The simple yet scary thing about getting embarrassed is that one’s embarrassment can be another’s entertainment.

Emotion is not a physical behavior, rather reaction to it is physical.

Writing a book is a Performance Art. The reader opens the book - the curtain. The characters show forth the story. The writer bows, and makes his exit. The reader remembers the performance. And his emotional response is locked in memory. In good books, this memory may last forever. The reader is transformed.

Emotions lead you to what logic is incapable of finding on its own.

Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.