Emotion Quotes

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau

Work, Art, Value

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Zi

Music, Human, Harmony

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

End, Nothing, Remains

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

Change, Thinking, Ideas

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Stendhal

Women, Eagerly, Lookout

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Self, Soul, Tears

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, War, Death

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian Eno

Someone, Act, Listening

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Stephen King

Find, Try, Cannot

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Give, Write

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Bad

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster

Beauty, Best, Her

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.
Eric Cantona

Important, Someone, Mean

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

Nothing, Thought, Last

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
Paul Cezanne

Time, Thinking, Impossible

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
Deepak Chopra

Training, Call, Fascinated

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Jerry Saltz

Women, Off, Knowing

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Bryant H. McGill

Often, Carry, Rely

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke

Humor, Emotional, Deep

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor Swift

Life, Feelings, Write

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
Mary Garden

Anger, Moving, Creativity

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

Truth, Powerful, Real

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Brian Eno

Reality, Action, Creates

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz Kafka

Life, Experience, Mind

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina Aguilera

Beauty, Music, Pain

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts

Love, Writing, Same

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Mike Huckabee

Life, Hope, Fear

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Jerry Saltz

Music, Time, Joy

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden

Become, Style, Accepted

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