Character Quote by David Foster Wallace

“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined to the…

— Adam M. Grant

“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of…

— Dwight V. Swain

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that…

— Martin Seligman

“emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.”

— Dan Allender

“It's the discomforting end of humankind's bargain with consciousness. We empathize with other beings and imagine we feel their pain. Either the empathy binds…

— Peter Steinhart

When you are living a character, the emotional graph comes pretty organically.

— Koel Mallick

“Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior. The romantic poetry and fiction of…

— Timothy Leary

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say,…

— Marcel Proust

In fact, one of the descriptions of the character in the book is that 'IT' was not very good at replicating human emotions. And…

— Andy Muschietti

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory…

— David Perry

“Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life.”

— Gary Chapman