David Hume Quotes

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

I react emotionally to everything!

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I'm really, really emotional.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I think anger is a good thing.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.