Quotes about Emotion

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.

For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason's having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.