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Quotes About Emotions

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
~ Eustace Budgell
I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.
~ Eva Longoria
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
~ Franz Grillparzer
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.
~ Frederick Buechner
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
~ Georg Ebers
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
~ George Herbert
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]
~ George Herbert
The more men you've had, the more I love you.
~ George Orwell
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna
~ George R. R. Martin
I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.
~ George R. R. Martin
Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
~ George R. R. Martin
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
~ Gloria Steinem
I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt