Top 85 Emotions Quotes

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Understanding your feelings is an important part of being human. With that in mind, check out the top 85 emotions quotes.

#85 – 80. Emotions Quotes

85. We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. – Brene Brown

84. A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream – Ruth Krauss

83. Too much emotion is like none at all. – Du Mu

82. My mind is like a seed packet of assorted wildflowers — I get happiness and sadness and whatever else pops up. – Terri Guillemets

81. Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. – Dr T.P.Chia

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

#79 – 70. Emotions Quotes

79. Nobody ever really knows how much someone else is hurting. We could be standing next to someone who feels broken and we wouldn’t know it. – Dr. SunWolf

78. Let your sorrow smile once in a while. – Terri Guillemets

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

76. All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke

75. How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. – Claude Debussy

74. It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. – Arnold Bennett

73. Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of things unsaid and now unsayable — admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears — rose around them. – Annie Proulx

72. Joy comes to us like butterflies, but sorrow like wasps. – James Lendall Basford

71. Let grief and guilt stay not too long as houseguests. – Terri Guillemets

70. We cannot totally escape from negative emotions, but we can choose to suppress them by maximizing our positive emotions. – Dr T.P.Chia

#69 – 60. Emotions Quotes

69. Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait… and peace will appear. – Guy Finley

68. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. – Sigmund Freud

67. Melancholy sees the worst of things — things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull. – C.N. Bovee

66. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. – Jill Bolte Taylor

65. If you don’t manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. – Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman

64. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. – Carl Gustav Jung

63. Yes, that’s the worst of it. It’s a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one’s reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can’t calculate on beforehand. – George Eliot

62. I feel an army in my fist. – Friedrich Schiller

61. I stifle my heart, and awake in the night to hear it moaning. – Muriel Strode

60. The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

#59 – 50. Emotions Quotes

59. The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot. – James Joyce

58. The sharpest sorrows are those which remain locked within our own breasts. – James Lendall Basford

57. Now this is going to sucker punch you right in the feels factory. – Dannielle Maguire

56. The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. – Marya Mannes

55. Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud. – Austin O’Malley

54. But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve… – William Shakespeare

53. People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. – Lord Chesterfield

52. Give thanks to the moments you feel loved and love the moments on which you feel. – Katie Nguyen,

51. We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our emotions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny. – Dr T.P.Chia

50. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

#49 – 40. Emotions Quotes

49. Why do I sometimes let my emotions get the better of me? For the same reason I let it rain last Tuesday. – Robert Brault

48. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie

47. Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. – Brian Tracy

46. To balance and take control of our emotions is one of the most important tasks in life. – Dr T.P.Chia

45. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

44. Positive emotions, such as the feelings of love, kindness, self-worth, confidence and optimism, produce a better person and a good destiny. – Dr T.P.Chia

43. We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny. – Dr T.P.Chia

42. [S]he grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy. – Kate Chopin

41. Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength. – Brigitte Nicole

40. I have a poisoned flower in my heart. – Octave Mirbeau

#39 – 30. Emotions Quotes

39. But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? – Vincent Van Gogh

38. 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

37. Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives. – Earl Riney

36. Guilt is a blanket of stones. – Terri Guillemets

35. Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind’s ability to make positive, brilliant decisions. – Dr T.P.Chia

34. Emotions have taught mankind to reason. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

33. One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. – Friedrich Nietzsche

32. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran

31. We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. – June Carter Cash

30. Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. – Terri Guillemets

#29 – 20. Emotions Quotes

29. 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

28. One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside. – John Lennon

27. You lived on your nerves, exhaling emotion like breath. A beautiful sunset could stop you in your tracks. – Abby Geni

26. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. – Oscar Wilde

25. Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, “feminine” ones, that is, no anger please, but it’s okay to turn on the waterworks. – Una Stannard

24. Swift instincts leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. – Edward Young

23. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. – Bertrand Russell

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

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

20. I felt like a tuning fork that when struck rang out loneliness instead of music. – Abby Geni

#19 – 10. Emotions Quotes

19. One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

18. 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. – Terri Guillemets

17. Guilt is always hungry — don’t let it consume you. – Terri Guillemets

16. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. – Buddha

15. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real. – Doc Childre

14. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. – Elizabeth Gilbert

13. Guilt sticks like glue. – Terri Guillemets

12. All emotion is involuntary when genuine. – Mark Twain

11. I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. – C.S. Lewis

10. Eventually you come to realize that most people aren’t looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to. – Robert Brault

#9 – 1. Emotions Quotes

9. Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the one thing holding us together. – Terri Guillemets

8. Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. – Byron Caldwell Smith

7. Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. – Robert Brault

6. Most of what is said under excitement is regretted when we become ourselves again. – James Lendall Basford

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

4. Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. – Vincent Van Gogh

3. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

2. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt

1. Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. – Deepak Chopra

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