Quotes about Emotions
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
— William Barclay
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
— Lady Gaga
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
— Joseph Heller
How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.
— Susan May Warren
Yeah, seeing her unsettled him, but it was her words that nearly took him apart. Because sometime after his heart started beating again, after he'd grabbed ahold of his emotions, she'd become the woman that, once upon a time, he'd fallen in love with.
— Susan May Warren
She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.
— Susan May Warren
His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and a single tear dripped onto his cheek.
— Susan May Warren