Quotes about emotions

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

After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The emotion is not who you are.

... 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.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;

not in silence, but restraint.

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.