200+ Emotion Quotes & Sayings to Show the Power of Emotions
Emotion Quotes
“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.” —Marquis De Vauvenargues
“Swift instincts leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.” —Edward Young
“Too much emotion is like none at all.” —Du Mu
“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.” —Robert Henri
“Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives.” —Earl Riney
“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.” —Robert Browning
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.” —Lord Chesterfield
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” —John Lennon
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.” —Oscar Wilde
“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.” —Jill Bolte Taylor
“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.” —Albert Einstein
“Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.” —Friedrich Durrenmatt
“One’s suffering disappears when one let’s go, when one yields-even to sadness.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” —Horace Walpole
“The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.” —Marya Mannes
“Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.” —TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” —Brene Brown
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” —Carl Gustav Jung
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” —Sigmund Freud
“Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.” —Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
“Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.” —John Sterling
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.” —Jonatan Martensson
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” —C.S. Lewis
“Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait… and peace will appear.” —Guy Finley
“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.” —Max Eastman
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.” —Francesco Guicciardini
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” —Oscar Wilde
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” —Buddha
“Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.” —Deepak Chopra
“If one uses one’s intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our emotions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.” —Bertrand Russell
“When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.” —Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran
“Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind’s ability to make positive, brilliant decisions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“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
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
“As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body.” —Nathaniel LeTonnerre
“Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real.” —Doc Childre
“An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man’s value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man’s reason and his emotions.” —Ayn Rand
“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” —Brigitte Nicole
“When we acknowledge children’s feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.” —Adele Faber
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” —Brian Tracy
“You can’t expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can’t expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.” —Greg Anderson
“Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we’ve been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.” —Doc Childre
Emotion Quotes for Love
“Loyalty is when love is stronger than passion.”
“Every true and deep love is a sacrifice.” —Carl Jung
“Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support.” —William Shakespeare
“I think of you once a day, and that thought lasts for 24 hours.”
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” —Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“They broke the wrong parts of me. They broke my wings and forgot I had claws.”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!” —Sophocles
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” —Blaise Pascal
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Sir Arthur Pinero
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” —Lao Tzu
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
“Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it’s the only way to love life completely.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft
“You were my first my last.There shall never be another you. You are a lifetime you are my life.” —Malika E. Nura
Sometimes no matter how much you try to speak your heart out, words are not just enough to describe how you truly feel.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. – C.S. Lewis
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“You never know how deep love grows till you lose it. And you never, never, never realize it’s true for you until it’s gone.” —Isaac Hayes
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” —Elbert Hubbard
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee. The more I have, for both are infinite.” —William Shakespeare
“The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” —Hermann J. Steinherr
Emotional Quotes On Life
“The soul lives there in the silent breath.” —Rumi
“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” —John W. Gardner
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” —Neale Donald Walsch
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” —Omar Khayyam
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.” —Victor Hugo
“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” —Eckhart Tolle
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“You never really know the true quality of someone’s character until the road gets rocky.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” —Soren Kierkegaard
“In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.” —Mike Dolan
“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” —C S Lewis
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” —Soren Kierkegaard
“Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. So think positive and be positive.” —Anurag Prakash Ray
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.” —Phil Cousineau
“The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.”
“You deserve to be happy. You deserve to live a life that lights you up. Don’t ever forget that.”— Coco Calla
“Our greatest achievement in life is being happy with the little things that probably means nothing to others.” —Hermann J Steinherr
“If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for like 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes.”
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” —Dennis Rodman
“You are a hurricane of a girl; remember to breathe every once in a while, do not drown within your own storm.”
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
“What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort towards caring about it.” —Nokwethemba Nkosi
“When something bad happens, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
“We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity… I think that’s what being really human means.” —Gustave Flaubert
“Take life one step at a time look forward to your future, stop looking back and regretting the past, the past is the past because it does not last!” —Abhishek Tiwari
“Your thoughts, feelings and sensations are the waves of the ocean – coming and going. There are big strong waves and there are soft gentle waves; they are all water and all part of the ocean.”
“Relax and trust the timing of your life. You will figure out your career. You will find the right relationship. You will become the person you always wanted to be. Just don’t forget to appreciate who you are now.” —Ruben Chavez
Deep Emotions Quotes
“Darkness and night are mothers of thought.” —Dutch Proverb
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” —Yousuf Karsh
“When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.” —Johnathan Jena
“You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.” —Edward Abbey
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.” —Malcolm Muggeridge
“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” —George Chakiris
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” —Anne Frank
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” —Stephen King
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” —John Ruskin
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” —Carl Jung
“The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.” —Sheryl Lee
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” —Yoda
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, and dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” —Edgar Allan Poe
“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.”
Emotional Quotes on Friendship
“There is no friendship in trade.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“I miss the days when we all were friends.”
“A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.”
“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
“We are neither on good terms or bad. We are no longer anything.”
“Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.”
“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.”
“It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.”
“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, because they don’t.”
“No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.”
“When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad you understand the lyrics.”
“I’ve had many ‘best friends’ over the years. The one problem with these friendships? They didn’t last.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“I guess what they say is true/Friends come and go/But I never thought that would apply to you.”
‘Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.”
“Don’t trust too much, don’t love too much, don’t care too much because that ‘too much’ will hurt you so much!”
“Why did you bother smiling in front of my face when you were busy gossiping behind my back? I hate you.”
“Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.”
‘Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flash through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to.”
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.”
“A friend on the face, a bully in disguise. I should have known from the start, not to let our friendship get to my heart.”
“Don’t ever say that we were friends, don’t ever believe that you can make amends. People like you give friendship a bad name, I hope you suffer in guilt and shame. I hate you.”
Deep Quotes about Emotions and Feelings
“Emotion is always new.” —Victor Hugo
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.” —C.G. Jung
“Women prefer emotions to reasoning.” —Marie Henri Beyle
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Only do what your heart tells you.” —Princess Diana
“Any emotion is a weapon of huge power.” —Anna
“Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.” —Chetan Bhagat
“I’m against having emotions, not against using them.” —Harvey Specter
“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.” —Robert Henri
“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion.” —Lynn Crilly
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.” —Virginia Woolf
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.” —Charles Dickens
“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.” —Paul Valéry
“No matter the situation don’t let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” —Turcois Ominek
“Intellectually rational and emotionally intelligent people are the winners in life.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” —John Lennon
“To be emotionally influenced by others is to be controlled by others.” —Charles Brandt
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.” —Adolf Hitler
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” —Eckhart Tolle
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” —Roger Ebert
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.” —Brian Tracy
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” —Paul Cezanne
“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.” —Bertrand Russell
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.” —Siri Hustvedt
“Positive emotions are a blessing to reason. Negative emotions are a threat to reason.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“It is our kindest and tenderest emotion which we screen from the world.” —Jean Paul Richter
“Is it a weakness that I lead from my heart and not my head?” —Princess Diana
“I don’t go by the rule book; I lead from the heart, not the head.” —Princess Diana
“When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.” —Sadhguru
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” —James Russell Lowell
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” —Nicholas Sparks
“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” —Jim Rohn
“If you fall in love, you are bound to have an affair with all emotions.” —P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“Emotional turmoil is rooted in what we miss, deny, or forget about ourselves and others.” —Alan Robert Neal
“Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.” —Irene Claremont de Castillejo
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.” —William James
“Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” —David Borenstein
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” —Sigmund Freud
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” —Brene Brown
“To balance and take control of our emotions is one of the most important tasks in life.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.” —Nalini Singh
“Don’t hold on to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” —Leo Buscaglia
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” —Dale Carnegie
“The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.” —Marya Mannes
“Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” —Rabindranath Tagore
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” —Vincent van Gogh
“It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” —Robert De Niro
“We cannot totally escape from negative emotions, but we can choose to suppress them by maximizing our positive emotions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” —Earl Nightingale
“People are fed up of movies and video games, now their real-time entertainment is to play with human emotions.” —P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” —C.S. Lewis
“To have faith is a good thing, no doubt. But that faith should rest on the foundation of facts, not emotions.” —Ravish Kumar
“Positive emotions, such as the feelings of love, kindness, self-worth, confidence and optimism, produce a better person and a good destiny.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Reason is smarter and the mind is more rational under positive emotions. Reason is polluted and rationality is crippled by negative emotions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” —Oscar Wilde
“Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! – Steve Maraboli
“Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.” —Carlos Slim
“To balance and control your emotions is one of the most important things in life. Positive emotions enhance your life. Negative emotions sabotage your life.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind’s ability to make positive, brilliant decisions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn’t like it there’s no faking it.” —Robert Orben
“You cannot be in the middle of your emotional muck and claim to understand why, because if you fully understood your muck, you wouldn’t be in it.” —Alan Robert Neal
“If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that’s probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.” —K.D. Lang
“Emotions influence us mentally, spiritually, psychologically and physiologically in everyday life. We will gain if we are blessed with positive emotions. We will lose if we are controlled by negative emotions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.” —K.D. Lang
“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.” —Jonathan Safran Foer
“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” —Brigitte Nicole
“We are the servants of our emotions. Our minds are constantly under the influence of our emotions. Our emotions influence our likes and dislikes, our desires and choices, our thoughts, decisions and actions. What we do for ourselves is what we do for our emotions.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“If you hold back on the emotions – if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them – you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.” —Mitch Albom