Quotes About Emotions

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.

Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.

Du joli, la passion dite amour. Si pas de jalousie, ennui. Si jalousie, enfer bestial. Elle une esclave, et lui une brute. Ignobles romanciers, bande de menteurs qui embellissaient la passion, en donnaient l'envie aux idiotes et aux idiots. Ignobles romanciers, fournisseurs et flagorneurs de la classe possédante. Et les idiotes aimaient ces sales mensonges, ces escroqueries, s'en nourissaient.

Como eu gostaria de poder tirar fora, como o desdentado que tira a dentadura para depositá-la num copo d'água junto ao leito, tirar meu cérebro para fora de sua caixa, tirar meu coração que bate demais, esse pobre infeliz que cumpre bem demais seu dever, tirar fora meu cérebro e meu coração para mergulhá-los, esses dois pobres milionários, em soluções refrescantes, enquanto eu dormisse como um menininho que nunca mais voltarei a ser.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I didn't," "you sure the fuck did" – they hugged that bicker to their chests like blankets fighting cold.

at the core of whatever made this human atom pile smolder he wasn't cooking anymore. He was all bottled