Top 414 Emotion Quotes

It wasn’t my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Anger can be a useful emotion; it’s built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

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

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

The focus of ‘Flower’ is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something – not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That’s the point of a live show – for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.

Love is not just about love for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife. Love, for me, is the love for my work, family, and even friends. The emotion is very strong. It comes with a lot of responsibilities.

So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

When I was younger, I used to say, ‘I’m not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.’ For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It’s a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of ‘what might have been’ had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon – speed.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief – everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

WrestleMania is an experience. It’s an overall ride, its ups and its downs and its curves and its music. It’s presentation, and it’s emotion, and it’s paying tribute to the past and progressing the product into the future. It’s career-defining moments for people who live for career-defining moments.

I’ve always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director’s job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Every movement, to stay alive – a very difficult thing to do historically – has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That’s not just an emotion. That’s a demon.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I’ve done that in everything.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

We’re not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren’t part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men – in reality and in fiction – are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

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

The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people’s situations.

Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it’s over.

As an actress, I’m drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I’m fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there’s something about being in high school that’s like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don’t have any awareness yet, you don’t realize that it’s a finite time and feeling.

We’re big fans of balance in storytelling, and we like movies that hit every emotion.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you’ll find out that there’s nothing there – it’s just emotion.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don’t like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn’t me.

People vote based on emotion. Period.

If you taste something, you’re not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

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

In ‘Beowulf,’ director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called ‘motion capture’ to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn’t mastered and what the technique can’t do is this: emotion capture.

Desire is the strongest human emotion – desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that’s what drives people to buy and want things.

Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiskers and tails are great for expressing emotion.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people’s minds with emotion.

When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in significant respects, culture. It is based on warmth, emotion, shared values – and, not to be dismissed, a potent domestic lobby.

Whenever we’re all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There’s a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it’s all about winning, and it’s all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can’t touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I’m a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

I haven’t got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don’t like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.

If you’re an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it’s something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I’ve always found it so fascinating.