Best 2079 quotes in «emotion quotes» category

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

There are two emotions: love and fear.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around. Poetry is not going to reach the numbers of people by which we commonly consider a large audience. It just isn't a stadium-filler. It could still galvanize people during a crisis, but let's just say there are two points at which poetry is indispensable to people - at the point of love and the point of death. I'll second that emotion.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.

There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.