Human emotion quotes:

Send

--
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. -- Bela Lugosi
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. -- James A. Michener
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. -- Ellie Goulding
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. -- P. J. Harvey
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. -- William Shatner
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. -- Chauncey Wright
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
How dangerous a master human emotion is! -- Watchman Nee
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. -- William James
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art. -- Isadora Duncan
Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled. -- Rush Limbaugh
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion. -- Bela Lugosi
I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion. -- Brandon Stanton
The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. -- John Gardner
Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion. -- Ben Zimmer
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
The fragility of human emotions are not to be trusted but to validate the necessity of Grace. -- John Pauul Warren
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. -- P. J. Harvey
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness -- Rick Riordan
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. -- Daya Kudari
Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better. -- Stephen Manoharan
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. -- Owen D. Young
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. -- Sanford Meisner
What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five. -- Amanda Donohoe
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. -- Michael Scott
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. -- Xun Zi
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. -- Michael Pollan
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman. -- John Carpenter
Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience. -- Vanna Bonta
I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change. -- Koren Zailckas
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions. -- Henry Tamburin
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things. -- Isabella Blow
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. -- Gary Zukav
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind -- Jeff Beck
The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love. -- Mark Hoppus
I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language. -- Will Smith
The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual. -- Andrew Joseph Galambos
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us. -- Frans de Waal
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence. -- Zachary Cole Smith
Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power. -- Bill Frisell
I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. -- Zig Ziglar
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd. -- John Train
My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics. -- Brad Stone
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. -- Robert Altman
The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic... -- Frank Warren
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business. -- Charlie Ergen
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. -- Rick Moody
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions. -- Duane Michals
I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions. -- Mark Rothko
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique. -- Sheila Kitzinger
We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals. -- Michael Fox
If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? -- Saadat Hasan Manto
When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic. -- Thora Birch
If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships. -- Sarah Lacy
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word freedom should ever be more than an empty political slogan. -- Wilhelm Reich
They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions. -- Emily Thorne
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan. -- Wilhelm Reich
You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur. -- Wallace Stegner
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. -- Albert Ellis
People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness. -- Seth
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response. -- Diablo Cody
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.' -- Drake
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. -- Virginia Woolf
A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph. -- Pete Townshend
Oh, dear Hazel." Aphrodite folded her fan. "Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness. -- Rick Riordan
Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. -- Laurence Olivier
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion. -- Carla Gugino
I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything. -- Ellar Coltrane
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience. -- Chris Hadfield
All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things. -- Robyn
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state. -- Margaret Mead
To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love. -- Whitney Houston
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. -- Plato
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. -- Edmund Burke
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. -- Blake Edwards
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are. -- Jeff Daniels
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. -- Morena Baccarin
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. -- F. Sionil Jose
Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human. -- Miguel
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. -- Sasha Grey
Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw. -- Banks
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. -- Claron McFadden
The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion. -- Wynter Gordon
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic. -- Bill Viola
Without emotion, what's the point of being human? -- Marie Lu
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. -- Clarence Darrow
Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience -- Virginia C. Andrews
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people. -- Mary Augusta Ward
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life. -- Virginia Woolf
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. -- Isaac Asimov
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit. -- Chuck Palahniuk
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss. -- Michael Chabon
Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being. -- Li Shan
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first. -- Storm Jameson
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. -- Hugh Hardy
Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels. -- Will Smith
I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong. -- Jane Campion
Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange. -- Simon Mainwaring
I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die! -- Louis Zamperini
As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips. -- Diane Keaton
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion. -- Thomas Hampson
Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories? -- Dan Simmons
I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria." -- Alex Abreu
A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Send