Quote: All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist
Quote: The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. Author: Lester Bangs 1948-1982, American Rock Journalist
Quote: It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Quote: Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. Author: Joseph Collins
Quote: It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. Author: Dogen
Quote: You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. Author: Margaret Drabble 1939-, British Novelist
Quote: Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. Author: Max Eastman American Commentator, Writer
Quote: Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic
Quote: All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions. Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score. Author: John Enoch Powell 1912-, British statesman,
Quote: The heart is half a prophet. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin
Quote: All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Author: Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926, German Poet
Quote: Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. Author: Joseph Roux 1834-1905, French Priest, Writer
Quote: We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. Author: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Quote: The heart is forever inexperienced. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Emotions have taught mankind to reason. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit