Emotion Quotes and Sayings

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
- William James

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

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.
- Francesco Guicciardini

Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
- Jonatan Mårtensson

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
- Roger Ebert

As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body.
- Nathaniel LeTonnerre

As an actress I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
- Gene Tierney

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
- John Sterling

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
- Bertrand Russell

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions  especially selfish ones.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
- Lukas Foss

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.
- Jareb Teague

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man’s experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
- Len G. Murray

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
- Vinnie Vincent

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
- George Santayana

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director’s job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
- Don Bluth

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing

Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- Gloria Steinem

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
- Kenny G

Endeavour to be faithful and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
- George Henry Lewes

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