Emotion Quotes

Sex is emotion in motion. (Mae West)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. View quote
Mae West
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. View quote
Jim Morrison
Music is the shorthand of emotion. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule. View quote
Juan Gris
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. View quote
Ken Kesey
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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
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. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. (Brian May)
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. View quote
George Jean Nathan
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. View quote
George Gershwin
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. View quote
Edmund Burke
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. View quote
Robert Frost
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
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. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. View quote
Albert Finney
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. View quote
Edward de Bono
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. (William Wordsworth)
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. View quote
Arthur Miller
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) View quote
Albert Einstein
I was raised that emotion was a good thing. View quote
Jordan Peele