Quotes About Emotion

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Painting completed my life.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

To fear love is to fear life.

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.

. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.