Human Emotion Quotes

“In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It was jealousy that was at the bottom of it - jealousy which survives every other passion of mankind...”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.”
― Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

“[Cole Doherty] 'You're asking the wrong person. I don't believe unconditional love is a human emotion.'

'Really?' June [Briscoe] tends to believe this, too, but she's never said it out loud.

'Strongest drive in any mammal, and I limit it to mammals just because they're my area of specialized knowledge, is to avoid pain. It takes a lot to overcome that. But people, and animals, they do it all the time. They put themselves in mortal danger to save their children. But emotional pain is different. If your love is getting pushed back at you, that unconditional river of it, you can avoid the pain so easily by draining out the water.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

“You know of gimu. But have you studied ninjō?"
It's hard to think the way he's looking at me. I rack my brain. "Ninjō?"
"Ninjō is human emotion, and often conflicts with gimu. A classic example is a samurai who falls for a shogun's daughter. Bound by duty, he cannot act on his feelings."
"Or an imperial guard who wishes to change careers but cannot out of familial obligation?”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“The court imagined itself the pinnacle of refinement, but underneath its glittering surface a cauldron of dark emotions - greed, envy, lust, hatred - boiled and simmered. Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever.”
― Robert Greene

“Ahora, viendo las cosas a distancia, me pregunto cómo se puede alcanzar tal capacidad de humillación, cómo podemos enfermar así, cómo en los sentidos humanos cabe una tan grande cantidad de placer en el dolor…”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada