Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? – Vincent Van Gogh
Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. – Author Unknown
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. – Claude Debussy
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
Too much emotion is like none at all. – Du Mu, translated
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert
Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. – Byron Caldwell Smith (1849-1877), letter to Kate Stephens
And I am glad to see, that you have also put to flight the gloomy thoughts which used to haunt you. I like to see people cheerful and happy. What is the use of giving way to sadness in this beautiful world? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St
We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. – June Carter Cash
Ere he returned, Madame descended and passed from the sparkling sunshine into the gloom of the portico, with a melancholy consciousness of the symbolic. For her spirit, too, had its poetic intuitions and insights… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897
…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede
A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960
Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear. – Daniel, @blindedpoet
I feel an army in my fist. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), The Robbers, translated from German
