The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinTags: science life truth art reality einstein vision emotion eyes mysterious awe the-mysterious
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund FreudTags: expression emotion self-expression freud repression
In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now.
Charles DickensTags: compassion weakness emotion
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
Louise ErdrichWere we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.
Peter SingerTags: reason philosophy suffering emotion
I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
Bram StokerTags: laughter joy emotion grief
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.
Henry David ThoreauTags: religion emotion routine
They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.
Gouverneur MorrisTags: change emotion revolution
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
T.E. LawrenceMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George EliotTags: infatuation emotion
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