#emotion

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#emotions #life #perspective #thinking #tragedy

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#character #emotional #hate #horror #horror movies

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#emotion #like #mascara #men #run

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#emotions #feelings #fools #had #i

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#emotions #library #age

I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions. ↗

— Katie Kiesler

#poetry #writing #age

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun. ↗

— David Gemmell

#emotion #life #philosophy #sun #anger

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it! ↗

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#disappointment #emotions #growth #life #suffering