Quotes about Emotion
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
Beauty without expression tires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
— Dante Alighieri
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
— Nikki Giovanni
What do you think of that? It's stopped raining." I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Yelling is a form of publishing.
— Margaret Atwood
God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.
— Peter Kreeft
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
— Peter Kreeft