Emotion Quotes - page 5

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions. (Bertrand Russell)
Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song - or as he says, 'putting some balls into it' - isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did. View quote
Clay Aiken
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion? View quote
Agatha Christie
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. View quote
Harry Styles
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. View quote
Jane Austen
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. View quote
Thomas Mann
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history - the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur - the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion. View quote
Kenneth Clark
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does. View quote
Franz Kline
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever. (Masiela Lusha)
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. View quote
António Damásio
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. View quote
John Berger
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable. View quote
Raymond Williams
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. View quote
Stephen King
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. View quote
Demi Lovato
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.) View quote
Carl Jung
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. View quote
Susanne Langer
The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. View quote
André Gide
Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough. (André Gide)
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
About three hundred years ago, it was decreed by the Chief Circle that, since women are deficient in Reason but abundant in Emotion, they ought no longer to be treated as rational, nor receive any mental education. View quote
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues