Quotes about Emotion
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
- St. Augustine
It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.
- Gregory of Nyssa
When one loves, one does not calculate.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
- Tertullian
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
- Robert Barron
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.
- Catherine Marshall
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
- Erica Jong
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
- John Keats
I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
- Lauren Daigle
I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
- Dolly Parton
For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.
- Jim James