Quotes about Emotions

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

The things that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.