Quotes About Emotion

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

Love is the end of sympathy.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

Music is the ultimate teacher.