Armstrong Neil
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Buchan John 1975-1940
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
Frost Robert 1874-1963
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem
is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Gide André 1869-1951
Journal
The great secret of Stendhal, his great shrewdness, consisted
in writing at once ... thought charged with emotion.
Kempis Thomas à 1379-1471
De Imitatione Christi
We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
Leavitt Robert Keith
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather
have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Nathan George Jean 1882-1958
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
Parker Dorothy 1893-1967
‘Here Lies'
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Reid Kate
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Udkoff Bob
Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Williams Heathcote
Reason is an emotion for the sexless.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
Lyrical Ballads - Preface
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850
Le Peau de Chagrin
To kill the emotions and so live to old age, or to accept the martyrdom of our passions and die young is our doom.
Dewar Lord 1864-1930
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Gaylen Willard
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the
most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.
Gogol Nikolai 1809-1852
Dead Souls
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered
manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human
emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
Koestler Arthur 1905-1983
Darkness at Noon
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Mannes Marya
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Parker Dorothy 1893-1967
(of Katherine Hepburn)
She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B.
Rattigan Terence 1911-1977
In Praise of Love
Do you know what „le vice Anglais" - the English vice - really is? ... It's
our refusal to admit our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.
Taylor Elizabeth
(on her first brief marriage at19)
I have a woman's body and child's emotions.
Webb Sidney (Baron Passfield) 1859-1947
Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.