Emotional Perception Quotes

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

I have a feeling only for shadows

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

They say I have no emotions, but I'm excited even if you can't see it.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.