Emotions Quotes

"How do you open up? I didn't know how to."

"Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy."

"There's a lot of nerves, a lot of excitement, a little bit of sadness leaving the chapter in Columbus."

"I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry."

"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions."

Peter Høeg

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions."

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears."

Francis Bacon

“Red is such an interesting colour to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, passion. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”

“That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.”

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

“I can admit and say that I have feelings.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

"Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety."

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Feel the feelings and drop the story."

Pema Chodron

"Get mad, then get over it."

Colin Powell

“How all the other passions fleet to air, as doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, and shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!”

“Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.”

Kahlil Gibran

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ."

John Steinbeck

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

Dale Carnegie