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Emotions18 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. — David Hume · 1739Repressing your feelings will only make them stronger. — Yu Shu Lien · 2000When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! — Nikolai Gogol · 1842All 18 quotes →Reason and emotion5 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. — David Hume · 1739When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. — Learned Hand · 1893We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921Reason4 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. — David Hume · 1739When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921The heart2 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984Aging1 quote
When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? — Julian Barnes · 2011Artistic process1 quote
Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food. — Yoko Ono · 2016Confusion1 quote
I wanna do a lotta things that don’t make sense. — Chiron · 2016Courage1 quote
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. — Fred Rogers · 2003Crying1 quote
Shit, I cry so much sometimes I feel I’m a just turn into droplets. — Chiron · 2016English people1 quote
It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did. — E.M. Forster · 1920Growing up1 quote
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! — Nikolai Gogol · 1842Knowledge1 quote
Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. — Learned Hand · 1893Motivation1 quote
Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food. — Yoko Ono · 2016Negative emotions1 quote
Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food. — Yoko Ono · 2016Repression1 quote
Repressing your feelings will only make them stronger. — Yu Shu Lien · 2000Stiff upper lip1 quote
It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did. — E.M. Forster · 1920The mind1 quote
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984Understanding oneself1 quote
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. — Fred Rogers · 2003Yin and yang1 quote
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Youth vs. old age1 quote
When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? — Julian Barnes · 2011