“The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.”

Others on Emotions

Golda Meir

3 quotes

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

Toni Morrison

2 quotes

“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”

Carl Sandburg

2 quotes

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

Neal Shusterman

2 quotes

“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 quotes

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

Balzac

2 quotes

“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”

Spinoza

1 quote

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

Chuck Norris

1 quote

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

C.S. Lewis

1 quote

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide w...”

Charles Dickens

1 quote

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our har...”

Coretta Scott King

1 quote

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

Demi Lovato

1 quote

“Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what yo...”