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emotion

Quotes including the word “emotion”.

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Thomas Aquinas

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Bregovic

Homeland is an emotional place, beyond borders.

Thomas Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Sigmund Freud

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Freddie Mercury

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Pavarotti

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Pablo Picasso

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.

Maurice Ravel

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Spinoza

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Spinoza

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Paul Valery

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.