Quotes About Emotion

I have a bit of a temper.

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy.

I've always had a bit of a temper.

Music inflames temperament.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

My dad, his temperament is a little worse than mine, at times.

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

A Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

Now love also becomes a reward so remote from me I have only made it with my mind.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

The sound of your voice, your radiant looks, Your smell the smell of your hair and many other things will live on inside me.

Elle tourna vers moi les yeux à cet instant, mais je n'ose y croire, ce regard fut-il un aveu. Ne me dites pas qu'elle est belle, elle est émouvante. Sa vue imprime à mon coeur un mouvement plus rapide, son absence emplit mon esprit.

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.