Quotes about Emotion
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
- George Eliot
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
- John Bunyan
Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.
- Anonymous
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.
- Anonymous
Revenge is an inhuman word.
- Seneca
Sorrow makes us all children again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Dorothy Sayers
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
- Napoleon Hill
That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.
- JM Coetzee