Quotes About Emotions

Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

Behold! a walking zombie! Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the combatants being the same people, civil wars are never really won; and because their most devastating engagements are fought within the individual human heart.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

We boil at different degrees.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

To describe adequately is the high power & one of the highest enjoyments of man. She was beautiful and he fell in love with her. The thing has happened to millions, yet how few can tell the story. Try some of them, set them at the painting; each knows it all & can communicate nothing. Then comes Shakspeare [sic], & tells it point for point as it befel [sic], or better; and now we have two things, love & literature.

I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and they unconsciously seek for it in each other. We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

What is the soul? Commonly, it's defined as an immortal spirit placed inside each person's body by God. But Emerson had a very different understanding. For Emerson, the soul encompasses both mind and heart. It's the ruler of the mind and emotions. The soul

An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch.

Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.

The knowledge of picture-dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius. It was not painted for them, it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.