Quotes About Emotions

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.

The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, And each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

If I love you, is that any of your business?

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

But you will never know another's heart, unless you are prepared to give yours too.

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.