Emotional arousal Quotes

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy.

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

I've never been cold during a big game. It's the adrenaline. You're always moving.

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

I love it when you talk that sh-t.

The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

I think passion in a physical way goes hand in hand with taste and smell.

I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

I love getting nervous, because it's also a form of excitement and it makes me feel alive, you know? I like that feeling. I've always liked that feeling. People who don't get nervous before they perform are no fun.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.