1,266 Quotes About Emotion

Those who sat with him saw his eyes go moist when they spoke about something horrible, or crinkle in delight when they told him a really bad joke. He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. We are great at small talk: 'What do you do?' 'Where do you live?' But really listening to someone -- without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return -- how often do we get this anymore?

You can’t go up and down emotionally along with their roller-coaster whims.

The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.

Are poets the only ones left willing to express emotions?

Are poets the only ones still left willing to experience emotions?

Love is no more an emotion but simply “unity consciousness,” where you can experience everyone as a part of yourself.

A life I'd gladly give for what is living if there is noHappiness, truth, feeling, nor love?For surely as I was born of human bloodI am a creature of undeniable emotion that cannot be suppressed

For a moment I looked at Ilsa's face, and in that moment, I could understand why some people like to look at each other's faces. There is something in a person's eyes that you cannot see anywhere else in the world. Something haunting and unsettling.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.