Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them

In this one life, this one life that you have to live, you must embrace every moment that creeps into your existence. You must feel every possible emotion to realize you’re really alive, you’re really...

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. ‘Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.’ How monotonous, how useless this becomes....

Love is a decision – not an emotion!

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time,...

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you...

All these many-coloured feelings fell… like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice...

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That’s all I’m really trying to do.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that’s the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also...

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a...

We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.

Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Music is feelings in search of words.

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.

Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that...

Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.

In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise…

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. (“Jane Brown’s Body”)

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good comes of this.

It’s counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can’t create out of indifference.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Our lips now conjoin like the glittery coils of a wet snake dancing in the amazon. Kissing Nadia sends me into a savoring affair for that which is most delectable, always tasting the delicate layers...

Emotional security is just as important as financial security.

He’d always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad...

No…No…We don’t walk away but when we’re holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing...

The ‘stiff, dead, retracted pelvis’ is one of man’s most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and...

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

Don’t overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

… an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress...

Man tames not vengeance; vengeance breaks the man.

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance – a teaming up of the internal rivals – is optimal for brains. … Some...

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who...