# Quotes about emotions

- Quotes: 175
- Authors: 109
- Narrower topics: [peace of mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace-of-mind.md), [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride-2.md), [smiling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/smiling.md), [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md), [stress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stress.md), [Attachment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/attachment.md), [sensitivity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sensitivity.md)
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.json

## Quotes

> All my life I have done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life. We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs.

[Richard Wright](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright.md) · [Black Boy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy/all-my-life.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

[Carl von Clausewitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz.md) · [On War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war/strength-of-character.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [balance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/balance.md)

> The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/the-heart-has.md)

Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/all-our-reasoning.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

[Honoré de Balzac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac.md) · [A Woman of Thirty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac/a-woman-of-thirty.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac/a-woman-of-thirty/but-reason-always.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.

[Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Essays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/as-for-the-passions.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

[Anna Brownell Jameson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson.md) · [Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada.md) · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada/as-the-rolling.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

[R. D. Blackmore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore.md) · [Lorna Doone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone/because-i-rant.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

[Carson McCullers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers.md) · [The Ballad of the Sad Café](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe/the-hearts-of-small.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md)

> Some tiny sane part of him knew he was out of control, but that wasn’t the part of him that had its hands on the wheel.

[Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magicians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians.md) · p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/some-tiny-sane.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md)

> Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

[Kate Douglas Wiggin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin.md) · [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin/rebecca-of-sunnybrook-farm.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin/rebecca-of-sunnybrook-farm/miranda-sawyer-had.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.

[Stephanie Foo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo.md) · [What My Bones Know](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know/being-healed-isnt.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [trauma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trauma.md)

> there are two main differences now: I have hope, and I have agency. I know my feelings, no matter how disconsolate they are, are temporary. I know that regardless of how unruly it is, I am the beast's master, and at the end of each battle I stand strong and plant my flag: I am alive, I am proud, I am joyful, still. (Chapter 43)

[Stephanie Foo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo.md) · [What My Bones Know](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know/there-are-two.md)

Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.

[Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/no-matter-how.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, all kids need to learn self-awareness, self-regulation, and communication as part of their core curriculum. Just as we teach history and geography, we need to teach children how their brains and bodies work. For adults and children alike, being in control of ourselves requires becoming familiar with our inner world and accurately identifying what scares, upsets, or delights us.

[Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/in-addition-to-reading.md)

Topics: [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md), [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Change begins when we learn to "own" our emotional brains. That means learning to observe and tolerate the heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations that register misery and humiliation.

[Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/change-begins-when.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Accepting the truth of your feelings and thoughts doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole person, and mature enough to know your own mind.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/accepting-the-truth.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-acceptance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-acceptance.md)

> Emotionally mature people may tell you how they feel about what you did, but they don’t pretend to know you better than you know yourself.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/emotionally-mature-people.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md)

> When you’re going through a breakdown, a good question to ask is what is actually breaking down. We usually think it’s our self. But what’s typically happening is that our struggle to deny our emotional truth is breaking down. Emotional distress is a signal that it’s getting harder to remain emotionally unconscious. It means we’re about to discover our true selves underneath all that story business.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/when-youre-going.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Only emotionally phobic, emotionally immature people believe that wanting empathy and understanding is a sign of weakness.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/only-emotionally-phobic.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md)

> Most emotionally mature people can accept that changes and disappointments are a part of life. They accept their feelings and look for alternative ways to find gratification when they’re disappointed. They’re collaborative and open to others’ ideas.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/most-emotionally-mature.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md)

> Emotionally immature people don’t step back and think about how their behavior impacts others. There’s no cringe factor for them, so they seldom apologize or experience regret.

[Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/emotionally-immature-people.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [apologies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/apologies.md)

> One’s emotions are one’s own; to suggest that others should imitate them is to impose on the personal integrity of others.

[Paula Gunn Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen.md) · [The Sacred Hoop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop/ones-emotions-are.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md)

> Let's not beat around the bush: human feelings can be ridiculous. Thinking back to that moment, to how I felt at the realization that my stepfather was slowly murdering me, I did not feel anger. I did not feel outrage. I felt hurt. That's right. That this man who I'd lived with my whole life, the man who married my mother and was for all practical purposes my father, was maliciously poisoning me to death hurt my feelings. Ridiculous!

[Steve Toltz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz.md) · [A Fraction Of The Whole](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/lets-not-beat.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors — people who have a certain hunger to know what is true — feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that... teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away.

[Pema Chödrön](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron.md) · [When Things Fall Apart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart/generally-speaking-we-regard.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [personal growth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/personal-growth.md)

> Through meditation, we’re able to see clearly what’s going on with our thoughts and emotions, and we can also let them go.

[Pema Chödrön](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron.md) · [When Things Fall Apart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart/through-meditation-were.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [meditation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meditation.md)

> He raised his head as Bitter emerged from the office, and his face broke into a huge smile. It made the blood rush to Bitter's face, how openly Aloe showed his pleasure at her presence. Sometimes she wondered how he found the courage to flash emotions as if no one could hurt him with them.

[Akwaeke Emezi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi.md) · [Bitter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter/he-raised-his.md)

Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

[Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery.md) · [Anne of the Island](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-the-island.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-the-island/but-feeling-is-so-different.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.

[Pierce Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown.md) · [Dark Age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/life-is-meant.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.

[Edward St Aubyn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-st-aubyn.md) · [Some Hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-st-aubyn/some-hope.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-st-aubyn/some-hope/mind-you-i-dont.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear — all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.

[Max Brooks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks.md) · [The Zombie Survival Guide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/the-zombie-survival-guide.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/the-zombie-survival-guide/joy-sadness-confidence.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It’s just easier to handle those with emotions.

[Ann Leckie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie.md) · [Ancillary Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie/ancillary-justice.md) · p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie/ancillary-justice/without-feelings-insignificant.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The warrior uses the power of the brain to be deliberate and the power of the heart to be instinctive.

[John Twelve Hawks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks.md) · [The Traveler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler/the-warrior-uses.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion. Both have to work in cooperation with the body.

[B.K.S. Iyengar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar.md) · [Light on Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life.md) · p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life/the-head-is-the.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/now-if-the.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> This internal war of reason against the passions has made a division of those who would have peace into two sects. The first would renounce their passions, and become gods; the others would renounce reason, and become brute beasts. But neither can do so, and reason still remains, to condemn the vileness and injustice of the passions, and to trouble the repose of those who abandon themselves to them; and the passions keep always alive in those who would renounce them.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/this-internal-war.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> There is internal war in man between reason and the passions. If he had only reason without passions. If he had only passions without reason. But having both, he cannot be without strife, being unable to be at peace with the one without being at war with the other. Thus he is always divided against, and opposed to himself.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/there-is-internal.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/things-have-different.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/i-have-my-foggy.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, for they would understand at first sight, and are not used to seek for principles. And others, on the contrary, who are accustomed to reason from principles, do not at all understand matters of feeling, seeking principles, and being unable to see at a glance.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/those-who-are.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> [S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.

[Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md) · [Sirius](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius/s-o-far-as-music.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music.md)

> The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.

[Daniel Keyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes.md) · [Flowers For Algernon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/the-foolish-thing.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/there-is-an-old-fashioned.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md)

> In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/in-a-very.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Emotional Intelligence' refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. It describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Working with Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/working-with-emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 317 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/working-with-emotional-intelligence/emotional-intelligence-refers.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence.md)

> Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Working with Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/working-with-emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/working-with-emotional-intelligence/our-emotional-intelligence.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md)

> Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 295 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/feelings-are-self-justifying.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> People who are emotionally adapt — who know and manage their feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings — are at an advantage in any domain in life, whether in romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.

[Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md) · [Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence.md) · p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/people-who-are.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)

> Just as healing physical pain requires describing it, talking about it, and sometimes getting professional help, we need to do the same thing with emotional pain.

[Brené Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown.md) · [Atlas of the Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart/just-as-healing.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> People tend to wear the mask that shows them off in the best possible light—humble, confident, diligent. They say the right things, smile, and seem interested in our ideas. They learn to conceal their insecurities and envy. If we take this appearance for reality, we never really know their true feelings, and on occasion we are blindsided by their sudden resistance, hostility, and manipulative actions. Fortunately, the mask has cracks in it. People continually leak out their true feelings and unconscious desires in the nonverbal cues they cannot completely control—facial expressions, vocal inflections, tension in the body, and nervous gestures. You must master this language by transforming yourself into a superior reader of men and women. Armed with this knowledge, you can take the proper defensive measures. On the other hand, since appearances are what people judge you by, you must learn how to present the best front and play your role to maximum effect.

[Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/people-tend-to-wear.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [appearances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances.md)

> Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain. Our thoughts almost inevitably revolve around this desire; we simply recoil from entertaining ideas that are unpleasant or painful to us. We imagine we are looking for the truth, or being realistic, when in fact we are holding on to ideas that bring a release from tension and soothe our egos, make us feel superior. This pleasure principle in thinking is the source of all of our mental biases. If you believe that you are somehow immune to any of the following biases, it is simply an example of the pleasure principle in action. Instead, it is best to search and see how they continually operate inside you, as well as learn how to identify such irrationality in others.

[Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/emotions-are-continually.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2.md)

> You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad decisions and negative patterns that haunt your life. Rationality is the ability to counteract these emotional effects, to think instead of react, to open your mind to what is really happening, as opposed to what you are feeling. It does not come naturally; it is a power we must cultivate, but in doing so we realize our greatest potential.

[Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/you-like-to-imagine.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it.

[George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Feast for Crows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-smile-should.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md), [smiling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/smiling.md)

> During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,
>
> "Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I ..."
>
> And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."
>
> Silence.
>
> And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"
>
> And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."
>
> I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting ..."
>
> "Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean."

[Ram Dass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass.md) · [Be Here Now](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now/during-these-travels.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [the present](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present.md)

> So now we have three models of the mind. Plato said that reason ought to be the master, even if philosophers are the only ones who can reach a high level of mastery. Hume said that reason is and ought to be the servant of the passions. And Jefferson gives us a third option, in which reason and sentiment are (and ought to be) independent co-rulers, like the emperors of Rome, who divided the empire into eastern and western halves. Who is right?

[Jonathan Haidt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt.md) · [The Righteous Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt/the-righteous-mind.md) · p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt/the-righteous-mind/so-now-we-have.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> His feelings were too complicated this evening. He wanted to shared them, but wasn’t eager to begin the process of sifting through his own complicated emotions, even with the help that he knew his parents could give.

[Lois Lowry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry.md) · [The Giver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver.md) · p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver/his-feelings-were.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> He was suddenly overwhelmed with the revelation that what makes life worth living is, precisely, the emotions. But, then — this was awful! — maybe girls with their tears and laughter were getting more out of life. Shattering!

[Sheldon Vanauken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheldon-vanauken.md) · [A Severe Mercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheldon-vanauken/a-severe-mercy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheldon-vanauken/a-severe-mercy/he-was-suddenly.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> “But profiting off people’s emotions?”
>
> “Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

[Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md) · [Edgedancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer.md) · p. 119 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer/but-profiting-off.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md)

> A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

[Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md) · [The Way of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings.md) · p. 377 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/a-mans-emotions.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md)

> It is not more anthropomorphic to postulate the existence of mental states in certain animals than it is to compare their anatomy, their nervous system, and their physiology to ours. When an animal is visibly joyous or sad, why not call things by their names?

[Matthieu Ricard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthieu-ricard.md) · [A Plea for the Animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthieu-ricard/a-plea-for-the-animals.md) · p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthieu-ricard/a-plea-for-the-animals/it-is-not.md)

Topics: [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

[Jeff Lindsay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay.md) · [Darkly Dreaming Dexter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/whatever-made-me-the.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [appearances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances.md)

> I am unable to intuitively understand what I am feeling, and I can often take a much longer time to process the effects of external circumstances than neurotypical thinkers. But it is they who get impatient with me, and under that pressure I feel forced to guess my needs before I have had time to process stuff in my own way, and so mistakes are made...You know how sometimes you put your hand under running water and for a brief moment you don’t know if it is hot or cold? That is every minute of my life.

[Hannah Gadsby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-gadsby.md) · [Ten Steps to Nanette](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-gadsby/ten-steps-to-nanette.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-gadsby/ten-steps-to-nanette/i-am-unable.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [otherness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness.md)

> Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/men-tend-to-put.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/sharing-instructions-about.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [conversation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation.md)

> Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/helping-men-express.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> In order to connect and nurture, it is not just helpful to be in touch with feelings, it is necessary. So men’s first job – their next evolutionary strategy – involves being in touch with their feelings.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/in-order-to-connect.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/both-sexes-had.md)

Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/the-nature-of-mens.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) · p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/if-we-have.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) · p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/when-either-sex.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md)

> A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.

[Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) · p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/a-man-becomes.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md)

> "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
>
> "And you what?"
>
> "What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

[Cassandra Clare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare.md) · [City of Ashes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/i-wish-i-could.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md)

> Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

[Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/twenty-four-hours-in-the-life-of-a-woman.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/twenty-four-hours-in-the-life-of-a-woman/whatever-a-womans.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.

[Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/after-experiencing-profound.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [sleep](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sleep.md)

> People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities.

[Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/people-who-are.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> One's emotional state is always determined by the oddest and most accidental things, and it is precisely the most superficial factors that often fortify or diminish our courage.

[Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/ones-emotional-state.md)

Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The intellectual breeds of humans think in terms of abstractions. But most people have emotions and think they are having ideas.

[Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [Beyond Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity.md) · p. 119 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/the-intellectual-breeds.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> “You humans have emotions,” Seeker said slowly, “but more often emotions have you.”

[Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [Beyond Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity.md) · p. 97 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/you-humans-have.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds — the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions... the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

[Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md) · [The Host](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host.md) · p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/this-place-was.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

[Dale Carnegie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie.md) · [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md) · p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/when-dealing-with.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prejudice.md), [vanity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/vanity.md)

> The emotion is not who you are.

[Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [A New Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/the-emotion-is-not.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> ... I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.

[Carl Rogers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-rogers.md) · [On Becoming a Person](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-rogers/on-becoming-a-person.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-rogers/on-becoming-a-person/i-have-almost.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md)

> The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
>
> not in silence, but restraint.

[Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore.md) · [The Poems of Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore.md) · p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/the-deepest-feeling.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [silence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/silence.md), [moderation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/moderation.md)

> A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvellously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.

[Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/a-burst-of-passion.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md)

> Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

[Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/smiles-and-tears.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md)

> It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.

[Elizabeth Gaskell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gaskell.md) · [Wives and Daughters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gaskell/wives-and-daughters.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gaskell/wives-and-daughters/it-was-his.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md) · [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) · p. 201 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/i-feel-too.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md)

> "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md) · [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) · p. 297 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/its-easy-to-be-emotional.md)

Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> By refusing to forgive, I give up all illusions. Why should I forgive, when no one is asking me to? I mean, my parents refuse to understand and to know what they did to me. So why should I go on trying to understand and forgive my parents and whatever happened in their childhood, with things like psychoanalysis and transactional analysis? What's the use? Whom does it help? It doesn't help my parents to see the truth. But it does prevent me from experiencing my feelings, the feelings that would give me access to the truth. But under the bell-jar of forgiveness, feelings cannot and may not blossom freely.

[Alice Miller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller.md) · [Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence/by-refusing-to-forgive.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md)

> His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.

[Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md) · [The Fabulous Riverboat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-fabulous-riverboat.md) · p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-fabulous-riverboat/his-thinking-wasnt.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.

[Ross Macdonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald.md) · [The Galton Case](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-galton-case.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-galton-case/deep-feeling-sounded.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [honesty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty.md)

> You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.'

[Mary Renault](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault.md) · [The Charioteer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer.md) · p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer/you-mustnt-get.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md)

> Better to be without logic than without feeling.

[Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [The Professor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/the-professor.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/the-professor/better-to-be-without.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

[Max Beerbohm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm.md) · [Zuleika Dobson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson/a-crowd-proportionately.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crowd.md)

> Animals cry. At least, they vocalise pain or distress, and perhaps call for help. Most people believe, therefore, that animals can be unhappy and also that they have such feelings as happiness, anger and fear. But there is a tremendous gap between the common sense viewpoint and that of official science on this subject. The ordinary layperson readily believes that his dog, her eat, their parrot or horse, feels. They not only believe it but have constant evidence of it before their eyes. All of us have extraordinary stories of animals we know well. Yet, by dint of rigorous training and great efforts of the mind, most modern scientists — especially those who study the behaviour of animals — have succeeded in becoming almost blind to these matters.

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson.md) · [When Elephants Weep](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/when-elephants-weep.md) · p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/when-elephants-weep/animals-cry-at-least.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The professional and financial interest in continuing animal experimentation helps to explain at least some resistance to the notion that animals have a complex emotional life and are capable of experiencing the higher emotions, such as love, compassion, altruism, disappointment and nostalgia. To acknowledge such a possibility implies certain moral obligations. If chimpanzees can experience loneliness and mental anguish, it becomes more wrong to use them for experiments in which they are isolated and anticipate daily pain.

[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson.md) · [When Elephants Weep](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/when-elephants-weep.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-moussaieff-masson/when-elephants-weep/the-professional-and.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

[José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md) · [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md) · p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/the-emptiness-of-old.md)

Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> What can any individual do? Of that, every individual can judge. There is one thing that every individual can do, — they can see to it that they feel right. An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race. See, then, to your sympathies in this matter! Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? or are they swayed and perverted by the sophistries of worldly policy?

[Harriet Beecher-Stowe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe.md) · [Uncle Tom's Cabin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/what-can-any.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md)

> I did not scream or hug anyone. In fact, as the noise gained momentum, I felt its opposite, a draining of excitement. But not a draining of tension - my body was still stiff and alert, and the impulse I had, strangely, was to weep. Not because I was sad but because I was not happy, and yet, like my classmates, I'd experienced an emotional surge, I too felt the need for expression. This phenomenon -- being gripped by an overwhelming wave of feeling that was clearly not the feeling of the people around me -- had also happened at a pep rally: It made me uncomfortable, because I didn't want anyone to notice that I wasn't jumping up and down or cheering, and it also thrilled me, because it made the world seem full of possibilities that could make my heart pound. I think, looking back, that this was the single best thing about Ault, the sense of possibility… In my whole life, Ault was the place with the greatest density of people to fall in love with.

[Curtis Sittenfeld](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld.md) · [Prep](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld/prep.md) · p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld/prep/i-did-not.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Hard Times](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/hard-times.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/hard-times/there-is-a-wisdom.md)

Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> When vision fails
>
> Direction is lost.
>
> When direction is lost
>
> Purpose may be forgotten.
>
> When purpose if forgotten
>
> Emotion rules alone.
>
> When emotion rules alone,
>
> Destruction...destruction.

[Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md) · [Parable of the Talents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents.md) · p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents/when-vision-fails.md)

Topics: [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> They don’t mean anything, you know. They hurt, but they’re only feelings. They don’t draw blood or make it difficult for you to breathe. They’re all in the mind. Life is about eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing and working, and not being more unhappy than you absolutely have to.

[Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md) · [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md) · p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/they-dont-mean.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Hal, who's empty but not dumb, theorizes privately that what passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human (at least as he conceptualizes it) is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some sort of basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, goey drool. One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for: this hideous internal self, incontinent of sentiment and need, that pules and writhes just under the hip empty mask, anhedonia.

[David Foster Wallace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace.md) · [Infinite Jest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest/hal-whos-empty.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [cynicism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism.md)

> The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

[Christopher Paolini](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini.md) · [Eragon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon/the-sea-is-emotion.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [the sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-sea.md)

> In the seventeenth century, it is said, there was a dissociation of sensibility. The poets could no longer think and feel at the same time.[…] All we are saying is that something analogous happened while the children of the Golden Age were becoming men and women. Feeling was already separated from thought. And then feeling was separated from sex.

[Martin Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis.md) · [The Pregnant Widow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/the-pregnant-widow.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/the-pregnant-widow/in-the-seventeenth.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex.md)

> The will is my own. The emotion's my own. The right to be inconsolable. When I feel, there's no 'we', only 'I'.

[Nadine Gordimer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer.md) · [Burger's Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter.md) · p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/the-will-is-my-own.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

[Nadine Gordimer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer.md) · [Burger's Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter.md) · p. 130 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/sentiment-is-for.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [taking action](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/taking-action.md)

> 'Dead?' said Rincewind, In the debating chamber of his mind a dozen emotions got to their feet and started shouting. Relief was in full spate when Shock cut in on a point of order and then Bewilderment, Terror and Loss started a fight which was ended only when Shame slunk in from next door to see what all the row was about.

[Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Light Fantastic](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-light-fantastic.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-light-fantastic/dead-said-rincewind.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world"

[Mitch Albom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom.md) · [Tuesdays with Morrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/tuesdays-with-morrie.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/tuesdays-with-morrie/death-the-only.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion."

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Diary](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/if-emotion-can.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md)

> The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity’s ancient campaign against pagan nature.

[Camille Paglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia.md) · [Sexual Personae](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sexual-personae.md) · p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sexual-personae/the-idea-that.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex.md)

> The hardship of it was a pleasure. Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames. Objectively, many of them held only misery, fear, confusion; but afterward, and even at the time, he had known an exhilaration stronger than the misery, fear, or confusion. A fragment of belief came to him from another epoch: Cogito ergo sum. For him that had not been true; his truth had been: Sentio ergo sum. I feel, so I exist. He enjoyed this fearful, miserable, confused life, and not only because it made more sense than nonlife. He could never explain that to anyone.

[Brian Aldiss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss.md) · [Greybeard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss/greybeard.md) · p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss/greybeard/the-hardship-of-it-was.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

[Wallace Stevens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens.md) · [Opus Posthumous](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/sentimentality-is-a-failure.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

[Clifford D. Simak](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak.md) · [Time is the Simplest Thing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-is-the-simplest-thing.md) · p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-is-the-simplest-thing/whatever-doubt-might.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

[Eudora Welty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty.md) · [On Writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing/great-fiction-shows.md)

Topics: [literature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> ...all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out. ("Writing and Analyzing a Story")

[Eudora Welty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty.md) · [On Writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eudora-welty/on-writing/all-writers-speak.md)

Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

[Valerie Solanas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas.md) · [SCUM Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/he-the-male.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [feminism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/feminism.md)

> The price of having these emotions, these passions, is that you have to control them, you have to bear them when they're too strong to bear.

[Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Children Of The Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind/the-price-of-having.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> 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.

[Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md) · [The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/if-i-didnt.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

[Leo F. Buscaglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia.md) · [Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/we-need-not.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [individualism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism.md)

> If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.

[Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md) · [JPod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/if-you-can.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "Worry is a waste of emotional reserves."

[Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [The Fountainhead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead.md) · p. 615 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/worry-is-a-waste.md)

Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. There are books I liked at the age of sixteen. I still like them."

[Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [The Fountainhead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead.md) · p. 584 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/theres-so-much.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> If one examines the reason why certain works of art offend us, one is likely to find that the cause is that there is no personally felt emotion guiding the selecting the assembling of the materials presented. We derive the impression that the artist, say the author of a novel, is trying to regulate by conscious intent the nature of the emotion aroused. We are irritated by a feeling that he is manipulating materials to secure an effect decided upon in advance. The facets of the work, the variety so indispensable to it, are held together by some external force. The movement of the parts and the conclusion disclose no logical necessity. The author, not the subject matter, is the arbiter.

[John Dewey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey.md) · [Art as Experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/if-one-examines.md)

Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> In the development of an expressive act, the emotion operates like a magnet drawing to itself appropriate material: appropriate because it has an experienced emotional affinity for the state of mind already moving. Selection and organization of material are at once a function and a test of the quality of the emotion experienced. In seeing a drama, beholding a picture, or reading a novel, we may feel that the parts do not hang together. Either the maker had no experience that was emotionally toned, or, although having at the outset a felt emotion, it was not sustained, and a succession of unrelated emotions dictated the work. In the latter case, attention wavered and shifted, and an assemblage of incongruous parts ensued. The sensitive observer or reader is aware of junctions and seams, of holes arbitrarily filled in. Yes, emotion must operate. But it works to effect continuity of movement, singleness of effect amid variety. It is selective of material and directive of its order and arrangement. But it is not what is expressed. Without emotion, there may be craftsmanship, but not art; it may be present and be intense, but if it is directly manifested the result is also not art.

[John Dewey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey.md) · [Art as Experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience.md) · p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/in-the-development.md)

Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Choke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke/when-youre-an-addict.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [drugs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/drugs.md), [addiction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction.md)

> Prediction had become a privilege now lost to her. Never mind the outside world, she could not even guess her own actions, or the course of her thoughts.
>
> Was this the true nature of emotion? she wondered. The great defier of logic, of control—the whims of being human. What lay ahead?

[Steven Erikson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson.md) · [Gardens Of The Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon.md) · p. 457 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon/prediction-had-become.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

[Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [Atlas Shrugged](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged.md) · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/he-liked-to-observe.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

[Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Persuasion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion/anne-hoped-she.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

[Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Persuasion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion/she-thought-it-was.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [poetry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry.md)

> How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

[Mary Shelley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley.md) · [Frankenstein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/how-mutable-are.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.

[Mary Shelley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley.md) · [Frankenstein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/the-different-accidents.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md)

> [The art of the novel] does not simply consist in the author's telling a story about the adventures of some other person. On the contrary, it happens because the storyteller's own experience of men and things, whether for good or ill—not only what he has passed through himself, but even events which he has only witnessed or been told of—has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu.md) · [The Tale of Genji](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji/the-art-of-the.md)

Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [literature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

[Saul Bellow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-bellow.md) · [The Adventures of Augie March](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-bellow/the-adventures-of-augie-march.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-bellow/the-adventures-of-augie-march/everybody-knows-there.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Let us look for our light in our feelings. There is a warmth in them that contains many clarities.

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/let-us-look-for.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/without-fixed-ideas.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/what-man-knows.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

[John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md) · [The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-acts-of-king-arthur-and-his-noble-knights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-acts-of-king-arthur-and-his-noble-knights/in-the-combat.md)

Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> [T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

[Charles Darwin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin.md) · [The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals.md) · p. 352 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals/t-he-young-and.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.

[Charles Darwin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin.md) · [The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals.md) · p. 350 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals/even-insects-express.md)

Topics: [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.

[Charles Darwin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin.md) · [The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals.md) · p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-darwin/the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals/through-the-principle.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

[Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Mansfield Park](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park/i-cannot-think.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in some particular case, they disappear. The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. I think that, for an ordinary mechanical man, the most difficult thing to realise is that his own and other people's negative emotions, have no value whatever and do not contain anything noble, anything beautiful or anything strong. In reality negative emotions contain nothing but weakness and very often the beginning of hysteria, insanity or crime. The only good thing about them is that, being quite useless and artificially created by imagination and identification, they can be destroyed without any loss. And this is the only chance of escape that man has.

[P. D. Ouspensky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-d-ouspensky.md) · [The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-d-ouspensky/the-psychology-of-mans-possible-evolution.md) · p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-d-ouspensky/the-psychology-of-mans-possible-evolution/people-who-think.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> “As I listen to you I hear only ingenuousness and didactic theory.”
>
> Lorcas compressed his lips. “Perhaps because you are hearing views which contradict your emotions.”

[Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md) · [Marune: Alastor 933](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/marune-alastor-933.md) · p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/marune-alastor-933/as-i-listen.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [beliefs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beliefs.md)

> From the same it proceedeth, that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

[Thomas Hobbes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes.md) · [Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan.md) · p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/from-the-same.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md), [beliefs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beliefs.md)

> [B]ecoming more rational, or not feeling the emotions of social slights, is not part of the human race... not with our current biology. There is no solace to be found from reasoning...

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md) · [Fooled by Randomness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness/b-ecoming-more-rational.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md) · [Fooled by Randomness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness/delivering-advice-assumes.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [advice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advice.md)

> Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought. When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives. The theories which Religion generates, being thus variable, are secondary; and if you wish to grasp her essence, you must look to the feelings and the conduct as being the more constant elements. It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on. This seems to me the first conclusion which we are entitled to draw from the phenomena we have passed in review.

[William James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james.md) · [The Varieties of Religious Experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-james/the-varieties-of-religious-experience/both-thought-and.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke.md) · [Letters to a Young Poet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/all-feelings-that.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [joy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy.md)

> "Fortunate boys!" said the Controller. "No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all."
>
> "Ford's in his flivver," murmured the D.H.C. "All's well with the world."

[Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md) · [Brave New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/fortunate-boys-said.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Mother, father, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty–they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?

[Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md) · [Brave New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/mother-father-monogamy.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "Adults intellectually and during working hours," he went on. "Infants where feeling and desire are concerned."
>
> "Our Ford loved infants."
>
> Ignoring the interruption. "It suddenly struck me the other day," continued Bernard, "that it might be possible to be an adult all the time."

[Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md) · [Brave New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/adults-intellectually-and.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [growing up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up.md)

> "When the individual feels, the community reels," Lenina pronounced.
>
> "Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?"
>
> "Bernard!"

[Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md) · [Brave New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/when-the-individual.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well-being. (The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute. The decanted infant howls; at once a nurse appears with a bottle of external secretion. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. Shorten that interval, break down all those old unnecessary barriers.

[Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md) · [Brave New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/impulse-arrested-spills.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> It was a basic Confucian principle that "it is man who makes truth great, not truth which makes man great." For this reason, "humanness" or "human-heartedness" (jen) was always felt to be superior to "righteousness" (i), since man himself is greater than any idea which he may invent. There are times when men's passions are much more trustworthy than their principles.

[Alan W. Watts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts.md) · [The Way of Zen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-way-of-zen.md) · p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-way-of-zen/it-was-a-basic.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> “’Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.’”

[Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune Messiah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/reason-is-the.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

[Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/mood-what-has.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> "A poor portrayal is about as effective as a good one for most people. They don't see the defects; they see a symbol which inspires their deepest emotions; it recalls to them the Agony and Sacrifice of God."
>
> "Jubal, I thought you weren't a Christian?"
>
> "Does that make me blind to human emotion? I was saying that the crummiest painted plaster crucifix can evoke emotions in the human heart so strong that many have died for them. The artistry with which such a symbol is wrought is irrelevant.

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/a-poor-portrayal.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

[Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [Cosmos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos.md) · p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos/human-beings-have.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception.md)

> Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another’s, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.

[Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances.md) · p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances/learning-how-to-be-strong.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [strength](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength.md)

> Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

[David Hume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume.md) · [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding/eloquence-when-at-its.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md)

> Take any action allow'd to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call vice. In which-ever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions and thoughts. There is no other matter of fact in the case. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. You never can find it, till you turn your reflexion into your own breast, and find a sentiment of disapprobation, which arises in you, towards this action. Here is a matter of fact; but 'tis the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the object. So that when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compar'd to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities in objects, but perceptions in the mind[.]

[David Hume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume.md) · [A Treatise of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/a-treatise-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/a-treatise-of-human-nature/take-any-action.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own. This is not only conspicuous in children, who implicitly embrace every opinion propos'd to them; but also in men of the greatest judgment and understanding, who find it very difficult to follow their own reason or inclination, in opposition to that of their friends and daily companions. To this principle we ought to ascribe the great uniformity we may observe in the humours and turn of thinking of those of the same nation; and ’tis much more probable, that this resemblance arises from sympathy, than from any influence of the soil and climate, which, tho’ they continue invariably the same, are not able to preserve the character of a nation the same for a century together. A good-natur'd man finds himself in an instant of the same humour with his company; and even the proudest and most surly take a tincture from their countrymen and acquaintance. A chearful countenance infuses a sensible complacency and serenity into my mind; as an angry or sorrowful one throws a sudden dump upon me. Hatred, resentment, esteem, love, courage, mirth and melancholy; all these passions I feel more from communication than from my own natural temper and disposition. So remarkable a phaenomenon merits our attention, and must be trac'd up to its first principles.

[David Hume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume.md) · [A Treatise of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/a-treatise-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/a-treatise-of-human-nature/no-quality-of-human.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [conformity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity.md), [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md)

> There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

[George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Daniel Deronda](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/daniel-deronda.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/daniel-deronda/there-is-a-great.md)

Topics: [self-knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-knowledge.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> “If it be urged that the action of the potato is chemical and mechanical only, and that it is due to the chemical and mechanical effects of light and heat, the answer would seem to lie in an inquiry whether every sensation is not chemical and mechanical in its operation? whether those things which we deem most purely spiritual are anything but disturbances of equilibrium in an infinite series of levers, beginning with those that are too small for microscopic detection, and going up to the human arm and the appliances which it makes use of? whether there be not a molecular action of thought, whence a dynamical theory of the passions shall be deducible? Whether strictly speaking we should not ask what kind of levers a man is made of rather than what is his temperament? How are they balanced? How much of such and such will it take to weigh them down so as to make him do so and so?”

[Samuel Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler.md) · [Erewhon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/erewhon.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/erewhon/if-it-be-urged.md)

Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

[George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Adam Bede](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/human-feeling-is-like.md)

Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

[George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Adam Bede](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/her-heart-lived.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/to-exist-is-to-feel.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [existence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/existence.md)

> There are moments in human life which can never be forgotten. Such is the time when Emile receives the instruction of which I have spoken; its influence should endure all his life through. Let us try to engrave it on his memory so that it may never fade away. It is one of the faults of our age to rely too much on cold reason, as if men were all mind. By neglecting the language of expression we have lost the most forcible mode of speech. The spoken word is always weak, and we speak to the heart rather through the eyes than the ears. In our attempt to appeal to reason only, we have reduced our precepts to words, we have not embodied them in deed. Mere reason is not active; occasionally she restrains, more rarely she stimulates, but she never does any great thing. Small minds have a mania for reasoning. Strong souls speak a very different language, and it is by this language that men are persuaded and driven to action.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/there-are-moments.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.

[William Somerset Maugham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham.md) · [A Writer's Notebook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/a-writers-notebook.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/a-writers-notebook/sentimentality-is-only.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.

[William Somerset Maugham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham.md) · [The Moon And Sixpence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence.md) · p. 154 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence/but-who-can.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md)

> I have spoken of the forceful sonnets of that tragic Portuguese, Antero de Quental, who died by his own hand. Feeling acutely for the plight of his country on the occasion of the British ultimatum in 1890, he wrote as follows: "An English statesman of the last century, who was also undoubtedly a perspicacious observer and a philosopher, Horace Walpole, said that for those who feel, life is a tragedy, and a comedy for those who think. Very well then, if we are destined to end tragically, we Portuguese, we who feel, we would rather prefer this terrible, but noble destiny to that which is reserved, and perhaps at no very remote future date, for England, the country that thinks and calculates, whose destiny it is to finish miserably and comically." …we twin-brothers of the Atlantic seaboard have always been distinguished by a certain pedantry of feeling, but there remains a basis of truth underlying this terrible idea — namely that some peoples, those who put thought above feeling, I should say reason above faith, die comically, while those die tragically who put faith above reason.

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/i-have-spoken.md)

Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/man-is-said.md)

Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md)

> The truth is sum, ergo cogito — I am, therefore I think, although not everything that is thinks. Is not consciousness of thinking above all consciousness of being? Is pure thought possible, without consciousness of self, without personality? Can there exist pure knowledge without feeling, without that species of materiality which feelings lends to it? Do we not perhaps feel thought, and do we not feel ourselves in the act of knowing and willing? Could not the man in the stove [Descartes] have said: "I feel, therefore I am"? or "I will, therefore I am"? And to feel oneself, is it not perhaps to feel oneself imperishable?

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/the-truth-is-sum.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [philosophy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/philosophy.md), [consciousness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consciousness.md)

> [...] for public companies [...], the job is no longer just to report performance. It's to recognize that ownership now comes with attention, interpretation, and emotion attached, and that those forces have become part of the market itself.

[Katherine Perry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-perry.md) · [Ticker Shock: A Playbook for Investor Relations, Communications, and Leadership in the Age of Retail Investors](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-perry/ticker-shock-a-playbook-for-investor-relations-communications-and-leadership-in-the-age-of-retail-investors.md) · Chapter one: The new retail reality · How investing became cultural · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-perry/ticker-shock-a-playbook-for-investor-relations-communications-and-leadership-in-the-age-of-retail-investors/for-public-companies.md)

Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [business](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business.md)