Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

—Andre Gide

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

—Dorothy Parker

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

—Francesco Guicciardini

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

—Mark Twain

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

—George Santayana

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

—Max Eastman

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes; we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

—William James

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

—Ayn Rand

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

—Carl Gustav Jung