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Quotes About Emotions

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
~ Émile Durkheim
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
~ Hannah More
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
~ Lawrence Hill
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~ Khalil Gibran
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.
~ Larry Gelbart
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
~ Jane Austen
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
~ William Hazlitt
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
~ George Santayana
To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
~ Elle Fanning
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
~ Blaise Pascal
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.
~ Frederick Lenz
Aspirations don't make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.
~ Balroop Singh
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
~ Rollo May
True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
~ Andrew Wommack
Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.
~ Helene Deutsch
Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.
~ Fernand Pouillon
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
~ Cesare Pavese
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
~ Anne Frank
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
~ Sydney Banks
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
~ Albert Ellis
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason
~ Richard Bandler
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke