I am proud to be an emotionalist. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Clermond-Ferrand: 134,000 residents in the Puys-de-Dome region … the capital of France from 1940 to 1944: ‘But the two emotions I experienced the most were the sorrow and the pity.’ The Sorrow and the Pity, 1969
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain’s processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy. Eric Kandel
Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it’s about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It’s angry, yet it’s real because it knows it’s angry. Charles Mingus, letter to Miles Davis, cited Downbeat 1955
You and your sister – you are emotionally blocked. The Sopranos s6e13: Soprano Home Movies, Carmela to Tony, HBO 2006