Emotion Quotes

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake

Trust, Envy, Friend

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Means, Emotions

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry, Words, Thought

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

Remember, Logic, Dealing

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Knowledge, Human, Desire

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music, Shorthand

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West

Love, Art, Instinct

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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey

Love, Good, Sense

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Fear, Everything, Else

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf

Time, Beautiful, Past

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

Love, Few, Enjoyed

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

Good, Passion, Battle

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Music, Feelings, Film

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Experience

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Heart, Together

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Mind, Reality, Become

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money, Real, Everything

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.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Emotions, Side, Pure

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Love, Important

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Poetry, Powerful, Feelings

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

Women, Men, Intellect

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
Chuck Palahniuk

Good, Moving, Chaos

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, Curiosity

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.
Demi Lovato

Life, Happy, Motto

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
George Jean Nathan

Love, Woman, Sometimes

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