6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Emotion

Samuel Johnson quotes on emotion

32. Declamation roared, while Passion slept.

98. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

103. He was a very good hater.

118. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

136. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

148. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.