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Quotes About Emotions

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.
~ Alice Sebold
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~ Amelia Barr
Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
~ Amy Lowell
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
~ Anais Nin
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
~ Andre Gide
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
~ Andre Gide
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
~ Andre Maurois
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Few men can afford to be angry.
~ Augustine Birrell
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
~ Ayn Rand
Most American men are repressors.
~ Ayn Rand
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
~ Barry Hughart
(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
~ Barry Lyga
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
~ Barry Sonnenfeld
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
~ Bertrand Russell
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
~ Bertrand Russell
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
~ Bertrand Russell
Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
~ Billy Joel
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
~ Blaise Pascal
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
~ Blaise Pascal