52 Metaphors for emotion

In June 1837 the most lively emotion in the masses of the people was the joy of a great escape.

The principal emotions were horror and shock.

But its real interest centres in the moment when the cultivated pessimist "without dogma" discovers that the strongest and most genuine emotion of his life is its love for another man's wife.

Yes! mother, your memory will assure you, that when the sweetest emotions of my heart were the stake, you appealed to me to sacrifice them, and they were dedicated to your will.

But, as he watched the old man feed himself like an animal, the emotion that rose in Bull was the sadness he felt when he watched old Maggie stumbling among the rocks.

His dominant emotion was envy.

Perhaps the emotion was the beginning of a new soul-life for her; certainly here was a moment of reversion to a condition of unplumbed progenital influences; the scorching anger arising from such a primitive situation was in itself primal.

That Emotion of the Spirits in which Passion consists, is usually the Effect of Surprize, and as long as it continues, heightens the agreeable or disagreeable Qualities of its Object; but as this Emotion ceases (and it ceases with the Novelty) things appear in another Light, and affects us even less than might be expected from their proper Energy, for having moved us too much before.

I have called her a woman and certainly I had loved her as such, but as, in this moment of strange detachment, I watched her descend, swaying foot following swaying foot falteringly down the stairs, I was able to see that only the emotions which denaturalised her expression were a woman's; that her features, her pose, and the peculiar childlike contour of the one cheek open to view were those of one whose yesterday was in the playroom.

Dwight's sole emotion was his indignation.

The fact being, of course, that Keats' death was due to constitutional weakness, and that the emotion inspired by the attack upon his art was a burning desire to punch the critic's head.

They can weep; they can play upon our feelings; and our emotion, so easily excited, is an homage to their own power, in which they glory.

Her first emotion was fury at herself.

There then resulted the Indian equivalent of pictures by El Greco, Grunewald or Altdorferpaintings in which the artist's own religious emotions were the direct occasion of a new manner.

My first emotion was resentment against my husband.

Its foundation was fear; its subordinate emotions were shame, self-pity and consciousness of her real feeling toward the man of the house.

The emotions with which they dealt were universal emotions, emotions of the morning of existence, the springtide joy and the springtide terror.

The first emotion was surprise; the second, awe; the third, pious fervour."

The active emotion by which knowledge gains this victory over the passions is the joyous consciousness of our power (III. prop.

Accompanying these instructive modes of response and their emotions are suggestions of peculiarly interesting problems as well as of modes of attacking them.

A mere emotion was but subject-matter for his satire.

And every man will say, As you wriggle on your way, "If 'emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of Art,' dear me!

Personally, I think the emotion is the more sacred of the two.

It is impossible fully to describe such a meeting; its exterior signs are beyond language; its emotion is a lifetime.

The mind of man is like a harp, all of whose strings throb together; so that emotion, impulse, inference, and the special kind of inference called reasoning, are often simultaneous and intermingled aspects of a single mental experience.

52 Metaphors for  emotion