Quotes About Emotion

Anti-Americanism is an emotion masquerading as an analysis, a morality, an ideal, even an idea about what to do. When hatred of foreign policies ignites into hatred of an entire people and their civilization, then thinking is dead and demonology lives. When complexity of thought devolves into caricature, intellect is close to reconciling itself to mass murder.

In literature as in love we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

And at that second, Greg felt like Maura's smile had to be worth at least a million dollars.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. It

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is somethings simply because it would be reassuring.

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

I believe that if you don not listen to your heart on this matter, you will regret it forever.

When I had touched her that first time, it did not feel like the first time I had touched her.

Is that all I am to you? A source of amusement?

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

If you're listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it's purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders.

The revival movement was responsible for a tremendous spread of Christianity among slaves in the South. Slaves came in their thousands to camp meetings organized mainly by Baptists and Methodists, where they listened to the same sermons, succumbed to the same transports of emotion, and pledged themselves to the same spiritual renewal as white revivalists. At times white slave owners were known to undergo conversion at a revival meeting and then decide to free their slaves.

We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.

Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Some live for love more than others. And he experienced a death that night.

He was a prisoner of love.

You fell in love with him right away: with his fine blue eyes, his moustache, his red hooded sweat shirt and tennis sneakers, his slender form, his chesthut hair, the way he looked at you with that blend of humor, intelligence, and relaxed confidence.

Love is, after all, my darlings, all anticipation and imagination, and when they finally met they would say something perfectly mundane!