Quotes about Emotion
My confession then, O my God, in Thy sight, is made silently, and not silently. For in sound, it is silent; in affection, it cries aloud.
— St. Augustine
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
— St. Augustine
It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.
— Gregory of Nyssa
When one loves, one does not calculate.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
— Tertullian
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
— Robert Barron
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.
— Catherine Marshall
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
— Erica Jong
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
— John Keats
I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
— Lauren Daigle
I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
— Dolly Parton