47 quotes
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato
“The beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder”
— Anais Nin
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Emotions are the most potent forces that govern our lives.”
— Osho
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
— William Shakespeare
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
— Lord Byron
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
— Jean Cocteau
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Love is not a volunteer thing.”
— Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
— Eva Gabor
“Emotions are in the driver's seat and logic is in the passenger's seat.”
— Jonathan Haidt
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
— Erich Fromm
“Emotions aren't that hard to borrow when love's the word, and you follow.”
— Neil Diamond
“Emotions are the greatest poetry of life.”
— Bryant McGill
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
— Oscar Wilde
