Emotion Quotes - Page 35

• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

  William Carlos Williams

  Criticism, Virtue, Accepting

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

  Tupac Shakur

  Spiritual, People, Secret

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• It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Night, Easy

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

  Carl Jung

  Pieces, Might, Torn

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Four Agreements, Loses

  Interview with Dirk Terpstra, vividlife.me. March 14, 2014.

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• A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Letting Go, Real, Past

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jul 27, 2011

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• A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Facts, Portraits

  "ART; In the Portrait Game, the Photographer Wins" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 1994.

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• It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

  Annie Dillard

  Special, Library, World

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

  Jasper Fforde

  Summer, Reading, Healing

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

  Norman Mailer

  People, Trying, Faithfulness

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• Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Independent, Giving

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Curiosity

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Sacrifice, Thirty

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• The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspiration, Hands, Broken

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• To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Soul, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

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• I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Brighten my northern sky.

  Nick Drake

  Sweet, Crazy, Moon

  Song: Northern Sky, Album: Bryter Layter, 1971

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• It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Strong, Hate

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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• Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

  Terry Goodkind

  Details

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.117, Head of Zeus

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• Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

  Terry Goodkind

  Ends, Results, Things Learned

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.119, Head of Zeus

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• But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

  Terry Goodkind

  Faithful

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• Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

  Edith Wharton

  Men, Reason, Process

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4566, Delphi Classics

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• I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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