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Quotes About Emotions

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
To be human means to feel inferior.
~ Alfred Adler
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
~ Ben Harper
It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
~ Ian MacKaye
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
~ Bernard Berenson
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
~ Alice Neel
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We are blind to each other's humanity.
~ Ernie Barnes
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Every human heart is human.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
~ Len Wein
Human faces are such a world!
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
~ Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
~ L.A. Weatherly, Angel
Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.
~ Frank Warren
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
~ Dean Koontz
At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
~ Russell Hornsby
If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
~ Mark Andrus
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
~ Karl Kraus
There's not really such thing as 'good' or 'bad' people, there's just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
~ Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
~ Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl