Quotes about Emotions

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

To be free of passion and yet full of love.

Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger.

The Stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion, and the Epicureans to freedom from all disturbance; yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, the other for unbridled licence.

Who himself is not the cause of his own unrest? Reflect how no one is hampered by any other; and that all is as thinking makes it so.

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

You'll find that none of the people who make you lose your temper has done anything that might affect your mind for the worse; and outside of the mind there's nothing that is truly detrimental or harmful for you… After all, you even had the resources, in the form of your ability to think rationally, to appreciate that he was likely to commit that fault, yet you forgot it and are now surprised that he did exactly that.