Quotes about Emotion
I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
- Anne Reid
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
- John Adams
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- St. Augustine
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
- Paulo Coelho
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
- Martha Graham
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
- Publilius Syrus
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
- Henry David Thoreau
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
- Henry Ward Beecher