Emotion Quote by Oscar Wilde

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a…

— Oscar Wilde

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

“Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings…

— Linda Kage

“Some men turn away from all this cheap emotion with a kind of heroic despair…But this too can be an error. For if our…

— Thomas Merton

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

— Anonymous

“Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn’t, it’s because we’ve trained ourselves to be numb. We’ve bought into the great…

— Natalie Brenner

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

“As I see it, people who experience equal amounts of sadness and happiness in their lives must be incredibly blessed. Some people lead a…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The man who has not seen such tears in the eyes of his beloved does not know the height of happiness to which, with…

— Ivan Turgenev