Cultural Quotes


Swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. Edward Young Emotions 178
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Gustav Jung Emotions 163
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. Kahlil Gibran Emotions 135
Emotions have taught mankind to reason. Marquis De Vauvenargues Emotions 112
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume Emotions 107
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. Joseph Collins Emotions 106
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Charles Darwin Emotions 95
Letters like compilation tapes were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. David Nicholls Emotions 94
I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You cant feel pain you arent gonna feel anything else either. Judith Guest Emotions 93
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. Joseph Roux Emotions 93
The seasons are the emotions of Time. E.J. George Emotions 91
Frustration despair angst anxiety hurt grief unhappiness envy jealousy and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently to change our status quo. Kate Levinson Emotions 91
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. George Santayana Emotions 90
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Oscar Wilde Emotions 86
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water the sheer velocity of its flow finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. Tom Robbins Emotions 85
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness. Anatole France Emotions 84
I dont want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them to enjoy them and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde Emotions 83
Ciss says People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions we havent time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions. Antony Sher Emotions 83
Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other peoples opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions Steve Maraboli Emotions 81
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 Emotions 81
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. Thomas Carlyle Emotions 81
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. Dogen Emotions 80
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. Sonya Hartnett Emotions 80
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. William James Emotions 80
The heart is forever inexperienced. Henry David Thoreau Emotions 78
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. G. K. Chesterton Emotions 77
there were worse things than feeling guilty like feeling dead. Lori Brighton Emotions 77
The heart is half a prophet. Yiddish Proverbs Emotions 76
But feelings cant be ignored no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. Anne Frank Emotions 76
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. Alphonse De Lamartine Emotions 76
Never let yourself be swayed by emotions her mother had said. Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever. Monica Fairview Emotions 76
Love was something different. Love was pure delight a fountain of emotions sensual delights and enjoying spending time together. Sergei Lukyanenko Emotions 76
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. Max Eastman Emotions 74
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. Horace Emotions 74
When we divert our love and emotions towards God everything else follows. Mohammed Al Fateh Emotions 70
If you keep your emotions locked in a box then when you want to open it one day youll find that theyre gone. M.D. Arnold Emotions 70
Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic sad angry or passionately in love forever which means emotions are never to be trusted. Lourd de Veyra Emotions 70
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. James Russell Lowell Emotions 70
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. Sai Baba Emotions 70
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. W. Somerset Maugham Emotions 70
Our thoughts dictate how we feel so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are Jeremy Aldana Emotions 69
I made a graph of my emotions a chart and when I looked it over I was amazed to notice that the day Agatha broke up with me looked identical to the stock market crash of 1929. I thought I was the Irving Fisher of love. Jarod Kintz Emotions 69
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. Ralph Waldo Emerson Emotions 69
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. Abraham Lincoln Emotions 69
One thing you cant hide is when youre crippled inside. John Lennon Emotions 68
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. Lester Bangs Emotions 68
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly. Corin Nemec Emotions 68
Systems die-instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes Emotions 67
We move in response to our conversation partners face and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic. John Gottman Emotions 64
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Emotions 63

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