Quotes About Emotion

Heartmating hesitating unafraid

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

To ascribe feeling is usually to make a prediction about subsequent behaviour.

The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.

As soon as feeling is regarded as a phase of a physiological process instead of a product of it—namely a new entity metaphysically different from it—the paradox

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Love is for everybody.

We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de

The expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

the way stock prices are made, the silly and almost childlike basis upon which grown men decide that a stock should be bought, and at what price

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit.

You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

I nearly left this earth a few minutes ago — ecstasy — word from you. Pretty soon I'll write music for you.

All great art is a form of complaint

Fear is a man's best friend.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.