Quotes About Emotions

All the pain, suffering, love, passion, and conflict have made me what I am.

Conflict is entertaining and it's the stuff of drama - or comedy - but too much conflict, or conflict that's at too high a pitch can get annoying.

Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict.

I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

It's okay to cry, it's okay to be confused, or to be down and angry.

I think 'Black Dog' came out at a time where a lot of people were feeling quite low and confused in quite a chaotic space.

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don't see it. It's very confusing.

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.