Quotes About Emotions

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

I haven't been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it's gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.