Quotes about Emotion
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
- Stephen Hawking
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
- Francis de Sales
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
- Marc Chagall
Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
- Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.
- Marcus Aurelius
For when the soul is deprived of emotion, what difference is there — I do not say between man and the beasts of the field, but between man and a stock or a stone, or any such thing?
- Cicero
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
- Margaret Atwood
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
- Margaret Atwood
If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
- Margaret Atwood
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
- Margaret Atwood
I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.
- Margaret Atwood