EMOTION QUOTES III

quotations about emotion

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Imagine that a strong negative emotion is like a mud swirling inside a fish tank. To get the mud to sink to the bottom of the tank so that you can have a clear view of the fish, the last thing you want to do is submerging your hands in the muddy water and try to push the mud to the bottom. The more you try to push it down, the more you turn it up. Similarly, you know, attempt to control a negative emotion, you may try to push it down. Unfortunately, the harder you try, the more it resurfaces.

HAEMIN SUNIM

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For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

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We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

JOHN DEWEY

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The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

MARIA V. SNYDER

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Calm feeling is like a lake without ripples; emotion is like ripples appearing on the surface of the lake, that change the appearance of whatever is reflected there.

SWAMI KRIYANANDA

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If as children our inner emotions had been repeatedly heard and validated in a loving way, then as adults we wouldn't get stuck in negative emotions. But most of us weren't supported this way as children, so we have to do it for ourselves.

JOHN GRAY

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Funny about feelings, they seem to come and go in a flash yet outlast metal.

JOHN UPDIKE

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We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

PARAMANANDA

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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

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An emotion is like a colored sticky note that you unconsciously put on your experience. You don't respond to the experience, you respond to the sticky note.

NICOLE GRAVAGNA

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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

HANNAH ARENDT

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You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

GENA SHOWALTER

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

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The taste for emotion may, however, become a dangerous taste ; and we should be very cautious how we attempt to squeeze out of human life, more ecstasy and paroxysm than it can well afford. It throws an air of insipidity over the greater part of our being, and lavishes on a few favoured moments the joy which was given to season our whole existence. It is to act like school boys--to pick the plums and sweet-meats out of the cake, and quarrel with the insipidity of the batter: whereas the business is, to infuse a certain share of flavour throughout the whole of the mass; and not so to habituate ourselves to strong impulse and extraordinary feeling, that the common tenor of human affairs should appear to us incapable of amusement, and devoid of interest.

SYDNEY SMITH

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