"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
— John Lennon

"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, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. "
— Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole

""I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
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— Jim Morrison

"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation."
— Judith Orloff

"The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
— David Hume

"The sun always shines above the clouds."
— Paul F. Davis

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question."
— Laozi

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless."
— Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)

"Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. "
— Hugh Bishop of Mirfield

"FINE stands for 'Freaked-out Insecure Neurotic and Emotional'"
— Amanullah Ashraf

"Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?"
— Voltaire

"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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— Amy Vanderbilt

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made such a mess of the place."
— Ann Brashares (The Last Summer)

"We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed."
— Mawhinney and Sagan

"She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
— Jean Racine

"That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself."
— Nick Hornby (How to Be Good)

"Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and cooing to her like a repenting hound dog, and promising her she is not common nor shameful. I watched all this and thought you just never know sometimes what's in a man's heart. When you think he is all tough nails and boards he can be different on the inside. It makes me wonder about other men I know, too."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

"life is like a rollercoster one minute your up and the next your down."
— asiyah

"Act a bitch. I don't give a fuck. Tired of your bullshit. Let it go you can't have me. You never will. Never a friend just a two-faced bitch. You ain't gone never change. So build a bridge and get over it bitch!!!"
— Shanece

"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
— The Dhammapada

"I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain."
— Temple Grandin (Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals)

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
— Marcus Aurelius

"There are days when I look into the eyes of people and I feel nothing but passion
Like if they were to take me right then and there all I would do is...flow with it.

But there are also days when I want nothing more than to fight the reasoning, fight cause and try to push it all to extremes.

Intense eyes and close heartbeats, very interesting."
— Courtney Floyd

"He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens."
— Chris Crutcher (The Crazy Horse Electric Game)

"Regret is an emotion, not felt, only experienced."
— Robert Solis

". . . mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way."
— Liza Palmer (Seeing Me Naked)

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"Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices."
— Brenda Waggoner

"Love is more than about distance, it's about emotions."
— Yannick Heywang