Quotes About Emotions

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.

I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

He also became better acquainted with Czerny, who invited him to his house to play some music for two pianofortes. "He is a good fellow, but nothing more," Chopin remarked of the renowned pedagogue. And he added the revealing comment, "There is more feeling in Czerny himself than in all his compositions.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

diary that night: 'Lessons learned today: Don't make big decisions when tired, lonely, hungry, frightened, ill or at night.

All I know is that I think, and therefore I'm exceedingly angry.

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero.