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Quotes About Emotion

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
~ Anne Carson
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
~ James Joyce
Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you havent, but thats part of life.
~ Tracy Spiridakos
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.
~ Sanaa Lathan
As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.
~ Sergio Perez
The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.
~ Steven Spielberg
When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.
~ Vittorio Grigolo
Life [had] replaced logic.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
~ George Gissing
This joy you feel is life.
~ Gertrude Stein
[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.
~ H. L. Mencken
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
~ Henri Matisse
Art without life is a poor affair.
~ Henry James
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
~ Henry James
My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
~ Jack Nicholson
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
~ Joni Mitchell
A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.
~ Justine Henin
My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.
~ Kenny Rogers
Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.
~ Kevin Durant
Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.
~ Leigh Bardugo
A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.
~ Lenore Terr