Quotes about Emotion
There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of the Sabbath.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
— Abraham Lincoln
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
— Alain de Botton
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
— Alain de Botton
Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.
— Alain de Botton
The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.
— Alain de Botton
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
— Desmond Tutu
love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.
— Donald Justice
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
To perceive is to suffer.
— Aristotle