Emotion Quotes - page 2

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. (John Updike)
But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever... View quote
David Zindell
Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear? View quote
David Zindell
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. View quote
William James
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. View quote
Sylvia Plath
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. View quote
Susan Sontag
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. (James Spader)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. View quote
John Buchan
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. View quote
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
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. View quote
Virginia Woolf
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. View quote
Kurt Gödel
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. View quote
Pedro Almodóvar
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. View quote
Giuseppe Verdi
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. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. (Franz Kafka)
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. View quote
Frank Luntz
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. View quote
Frank Luntz
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. View quote
Bong Joon-ho