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100+ Emotion Quotes

Emotion is a strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings in general. Emotion refers to an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness. This is a collection of 100+ Emotion quotes and sayings.


All emotion is involuntary when genuine. - Mark Twain
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. - Angel Haze
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H. P. Lovecraft
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. - George Jean Nathan
Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great. - Shawn Mendes
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. - James Joyce
I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both. - Jessi Kirby
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. - Philip Treacy
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Nietzsche
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Ken Kesey
Music envelopes us in a euphoria of emotions that only a musician can unravel. - Anthony T. Hincks
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. - Miguel
Logic will never change emotion or perception. - Edward de Bono
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. - Robert Smithson
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. - Paul Cezanne
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. - John Buchan
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. - Brian May
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. - William Shatner
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action. - Brian Eno
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. - George Jean Nathan
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. - Nigella Lawson
Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion. - Jimmy Kimmel
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. - Mae West
Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. - Richard Avedon
The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge. - Jurgen Klopp
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. - Jean Cocteau
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. - Bryant H. McGill
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. - John Burroughs
On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable. - Tom Holland
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship. - Stephen Kinzer
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. - Naomi Campbell
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way. - James Blunt
Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over. - Leona Lewis
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships. - Rani Mukerji
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. - Clive Bell
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. - Algernon Blackwood
My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler. - Selena Gomez
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. - Joe Biden
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. - Meryl Streep
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. - Nicholas Sparks
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Pity those who don't feel anything at all. - Sarah J. Maas
Happiness is an emotion of satisfied.
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. - Anne Frank
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. - Charles Darwin
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. - Jill Bolte Taylor
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. - Baruch Spinoza
Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt. - Neil Gaiman
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. - Eckhart Tolle
If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone. - M.D. Arnold
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. - Robert Greene
Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. - Adriana Trigiani
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. - Amy Vanderbilt
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - Charles Du Bos
You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart. - Carl White
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. - Oscar Wilde
Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. - Vironika Tugaleva
Emotions are messy. - Ottilie Weber
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. - Rachel Hartman
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. - Oscar Wilde
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. - Shannon L. Alder
Women are better than men in handling their emotions, that is why every happy girl is not happy. - M.F. Moonzajer
Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making. - Roy Bennett
Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play. - Erica Goros
Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go. - Elliot Kay
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life. - Arlaina Tibensky
Your thoughts and emotions will dictate the kind of life you will have. - Jayson Engay
Never let your fears run away with your emotions. - Anthony T.Hincks
Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter. - Adam Phillips
Your thoughts and emotions will dictate the kind of life you will have. - Jayson Engay
Never let your fears run away with your emotions. - Anthony T.Hincks
Everything beautiful inspired a tear, as if her small body was incapable of containing the great emotion she felt. - Nicole Sager
Be glad for your emotions. You are able to function in the world because of them. - Jessica Moore
Champions know the emotions you want to feel and help you feel them by remaining genuine to a noble intention. - Thomas V. Le Hoang
Never allow your emotions cloud your sense of reasoning. Otherwise, you will always make wrong choices. - Clement Ogedegbe
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it's our job to share our calm, not join their chaos. - L.R. Knost
The power of a word depends upon the emotion and the definition you give it. - Aireen Pontillo
Happiness is a feeling/emotion, but Joy is state of 'being'. One does not depend on your external circumstances, the other does. - Jason White
very emotion teaches a man a lesson, one among them is anger. - Fahad Basheer
Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without it. - Isabella Poretsis
There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The real miracle in human life is having emotions, being able to feel things. - Marty Rubin
Emotions are like a boomerang. - Mark T. Arsenault
When you decide where you turn next in life, look beyond your thoughts, do not trust your emotions, and listen to your heart. - Dragos Bratasanu
Worry is perhaps the most useless emotion; it is the product of guilt after the time for action has passed. - Charbel Tadros
It is unwise to think that marriage will bring an end to your emotional problems. - Ugochi Oritsejolomisan
Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same. - Sergei Polunin
Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions. - Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Patience is only called patience when it ends up with results that Justify the time awaited, the emotions given and the tears spent. - Sameh Elsayed
Emotions are some merciless attention seekers you know. You ignore them they destroy you. - Drishti Bablani
Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth. - Ginger Harrington
When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness. - Sharon Salzberg
You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable. - Kemi Sogunle
I said this before: The only way to live a good life is to act on your emotions. - Heero Yuy
The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better. - Johan Fundin
Sometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a smile is enough. - Gaurav GRV Sharma
Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions. - John Wayne Gacy
It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it. - Wendy Walker
Anger... agony... so familiar emotions. - Deyth Banger
Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does. - Mark Murphy
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