Quotes about Emotion

Anger can be likened to an architect's blueprint. The availability of a blueprint does not cause a building to be constructed, but it does make construction easier.

When your heart begins to pound, your face gets hot, your thoughts race, your blood pressure skyrockets, and adrenaline surges through your body, you will seldom act in a rational way. Your rage may lead to a constant struggle to control your actions. Your fury itself may feel very uncomfortable and be a constant reminder that you are not dealing effectively with the world around you.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea

I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.