“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.” FeelsHumansDoeEnoughEyeStrongGriefEmotionBrainRiskThousandTenPaperDeterminationAddReleaseZeroFuneralHuman BrainNeurotransmitters Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.” MenMadeHopeLosesEmotionWifeRiskDangerousFortuneFoolishnessPeril Author:Bentley Little
“Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!” MenHumansHeartRunningEnergyLosesEmotionCreativeRiskDangerousSensationsHuman HeartTabooCreative Power Author:Phyllis Bottome
“For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.” PersonsMadeSpaceEmotionRiskDistanceIntimacyRomantic LoveFriendship LoveBearable Book:Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival Source: Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
“Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.” KnowsWayCharacterWould BeFilmSocialLove IsEmotionAliveRiskDecidedBe GoodRanAccusedMarginsAmnesiaBeing Accused Author:Louis Garrel