Quotes about Emotion
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
— Washington Irving
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
— George Eliot
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
— John Milton
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
— Samuel Johnson
Affection is the lively representment of any passion whatsoever, as if the figures stood not upon a cloth or board, but as if they were acting upon a stage.Wotton'sArchitecture.
— Samuel Johnson
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
— John Adams
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
— John Bunyan
For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
— John Donne
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
— John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
— John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
— John Donne
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
— John Donne