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Quotes About Emotions

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
~ Florence Nightingale
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.
~ Frans de Waal
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
~ Sigmund Freud
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated
~ James W. Pennebaker
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
~ Richard Dawkins
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
~ George Henry Lewes
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
~ Jon Elster
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
~ Alexander Pope
We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.
~ Beth Harbison
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.
~ Duncan Jones
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
When you say to someone "follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won't have any significance to you whatsoever.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
A present is not the source of buying someone's love but its a source of showing how much u love and apriciate that particular person
~ Ralph Ramovha
She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would su
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.
~ Shaun David Hutchinson
Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?""I wasn't, " he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did.""I'm an idiot.""Yeah, you are.""Shut up.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. "Dammit!" he says again with more feeling. "Why does stuff like this keep happening?""You say that as if it's a bad thing, " Rob says, smirking.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.
~ Amy Tintera, Rebel
. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.
~ J. Kowallis, Afterimage
Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda
~ Devon Monk, Infinity Bell