As humans, we’re emotional creatures. Emotional quotes help us and influence the decisions we make, the career path we take, the films and music we enjoy, and the art we’re drawn to. Emotions help us choose our friends, those whom we fall in love and stay with for our entire lives…also those whom we’ll leave behind.
Yes, emotions have power. Emotional intelligence is the ability to harness that power–to understand and manage emotions so that you can make decisions that are in harmony with your core values and principles.
But what can we learn from what others have taught us about harnessing the power of emotion?
Below you’ll find some of my favorite emotional intelligence quotes. Together, they can help you learn how to make emotions work for you, instead of against you
Best Emotional Quotes
“But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
–Anne Frank
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Those that will not hear must be made to feel.”
–German proverb
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche
“Empathy does not equal agreement.”
–Chris Voss
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
“O love, O fire! Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass….”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe
“I’m afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
― John Lennon
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
Emotional Quotes for Feeling Sad
“Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
“So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” –E.A. Bucchianeri
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.” –John Irving
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” –George Eliot
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” –J.K. Rowling
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” –Henry Rollins
“There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” –Tennessee Williams
“You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.” –C.C Aurel
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” –Veronica Roth
“Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.” –E.H. Chapin
“Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.” –Henry Ward Beecher
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
Sad Emotional Quotes in English
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.”
― Edward Young
“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority..”
― Lord Chesterfield
“Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?”
― Malcolm Forbes
“When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?”
― Margaret O’Brien
“Systems die-instincts remain.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.”
― Anatole France
“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts-the less you know the hotter you get.”
― Bertrand Russell
Emotional Quotes For Broken Heart
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
― Buddha
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” –Margaret Mitchell
“Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” -Maya Watson
“You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain
“Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” –Stephen Chbosky
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” -Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” -Carl Jung
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” –Truman Capote
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” –C.S. Lewis
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” –Eudora Welty
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” –J.D. Salinger
“I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.” – Unknown
