Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
Emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself![Insensé le jour où j’avais résolu de me venger, de ne pas m’être arraché le cœur !]
Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain. They use it as fuel.
