Emotions

Emotions are complex psychophysical processes that evoke positive or negative psychological responses (or both) and physical expressions, often involuntary. Emotions are often related to feelings, perceptions or beliefs about elements, objects or relations between them, in reality or in the imagination. They typically arise spontaneously, rather than through conscious effort. An emotion (reaction or state) is often differentiated from a feeling (sensation or impression), although the word feeling can mean emotion in some contexts.

Sourced

• Feelings are a very difficult business. So outsource them.
  • Poster from unidentified painter
  • Matyszczyk, Chris (13 March 2010). "Why people really do care about privacy". CNET (CBS Interactive). Retrieved on 2010-03-18. 

Unsourced

• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
  • Oscar Wilde

• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
  • Bertrand Russell

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

• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
  • Henri Matisse

• The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
  • P.D. Ouspensky

• I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
  • Elizabeth Taylor