“Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.” PeopleMightMotivationalWalksEmotionGroupsOfficeDiseaseSpreadMoodFasterPanicSkepticismNegotiationVirusesContagiousBad Mood Author:Seth Godin
“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.” HumansSufferingHateResultsEmotionSadnessDiseaseEnvyManifestationHypocrisyAnger Hate Author:Miguel
“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingFacesFormChristMy OwnEmotionMeditationOfficeDiseaseConvictionWarmHealIngredientsUrgentInvitationsAlarmsLivelyThresholdObstinate Author:Thomas Chalmers
“Misery is a communicable disease.” EmotionAttitudeDiseaseMiseryCommunicable Diseases Author:Martha Graham
“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.” PeopleFeelsRealityCultureEmotionCenturyTvsDiseaseTheaterPopsSymbolsOperaIdolsInabilityTwentieth CenturySoapSoap OperasMovie TheaterClusters Author:Jim Morrison
“Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed more men in war than fear. What should a warrior fear? Death? But death is what everyone achieves ultimately. Is it wounds that you fear? What is more important? A pint of your blood or the nectar of victory? Think. Thinking will clear such doubts.” ThinkingMenShouldImportantWarEmotionLeaderClearDoubtBloodAchieveVictoryDiseaseVicesSpreadWoundsWarriorFollowersFear Of DeathVice VersaPintsNectar Author:Anand Neelakantan
“There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.” PeopleThinkingWholeCareFightingStrongSocialEmotionDyingDiseaseVariousClubsSavedBunchContractsSaviorDeceivedChokeProtagonistsSocial ContractPeople Who Are Dying Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.” WayMindSoulFoundHouseEmotionCrimeMinesDiseaseSickBottomLustMysteriousBurningSicknessYellowAbandonedFrighteningFeverGalleryMonstrousBreedingEnnuiAberrationUnexploredVegetationThoughts And EmotionsBaudelaireYellow FeverHatchingTetanus Author:Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, depending on circumstance. There is evidence that the emotion can make a person live longer, evidence it can kill you early. I think it's akin to a deadly disease. Or at least some exotic fever. Catch it, and you'd better, quick, swallow some medication to use as a weapon against the fire ravaging body and soul.” ThinkingPersonsSoulUseBodyJoyEmotionFireCircumstancesPromiseDiseaseWeaponsEvidenceBotherGuaranteesVowFeverExoticMedicationIndefinableDeadly Diseases Author:Ellen Hopkins
“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindWisdomBodyBigsSufferingThreeWaitingEmotionWiseHabitDiseaseNegativeWingsAddictionNegative Thinking Author:Peter McWilliams
“Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.” MayHelpingHappinessJoyEmotionLaughingProtectDiseaseLaughterNegativeProofBlockAgentsBulletsAssaultYou AgainProtect YouNegative EmotionsVests Author:Norman Cousins
“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.” HumansSelfRealityHuman BeingsEmotionAttitudeEmotionalDiseasePerceptionAvailablePityAddictSelf PityNarcoticsIgnobleIncapacityPerception RealityDerelict Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.” HeartSometimesEyeEmotionEmotionalDiseaseDeterminationDischargeSodium Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.” FeelingsEmotionEmotionalDiseaseManageRelativeNever QuitTroublesome Book:Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes Source: Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
“It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.” IfsFeelsShouldDoneMomentsFeelingsFilmForceChristResultsEmotionCenturyDyingPureDiseaseUltimateSuicideCuresShockBuriedPassive21st CenturySensitivityViewersObservingNumbnessVaultsPortrayalChrist Like Author:Cintra Wilson