Quotes about Emotions

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him

There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home

There was a pain in Muriel to become herself that engaged my heart. I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed. Sometimes her words both thrilled me and made me weep.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.