“Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.”
Others on Emotion
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
Horace
3 quotes“Anger is a brief madness.”
Goethe
3 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Ernest Hemingway
3 quotes“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”
Frank Herbert
2 quotes“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
Aldous Huxley
2 quotes“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 quotes“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”
H.P. Lovecraft
2 quotes“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
George Eliot
2 quotes“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
Erica Jong
2 quotes“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or...”
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 quotes“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”