logo

Quotes About Emotions

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
~ Epictetus
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
~ Epictetus
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.
~ Erich Fromm
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
~ Gary Shteyngart
The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
~ Gautama Buddha
No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
~ Gelett Burgess
What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.
~ George MacDonald
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
~ George Santayana
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
~ Kristoffer Polaha
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
~ Adam Sandler
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
~ Adam Smith
He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
~ Alan Jackson
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
~ Albert Camus
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
~ Albert Camus
Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.
~ Albert Einstein
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson