Quotes About Emotions

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.