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Quotes About Emotion

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
~ Georges Rouault
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
~ Kiki Smith
Words can not express the joy of new life.
~ Hermann Hesse
DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
~ Robert Smith
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
~ Sam Abell
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
~ Tom Cruise
I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.
~ Nicole Richie
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
~ Conor Oberst
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
~ Jeff Buckley
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
~ Sam Peckinpah
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
~ Frederick Lenz
I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
~ John Wilmot
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
~ Joseph Henry
I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?
~ Christopher Doyle
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
~ Daniel Barenboim
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
~ Edna O'Brien
I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.
~ Edward Higgins White
I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.
~ Adam Young
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
~ Ben Okri
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.
~ John Boorman
Come on. Let me have it. Don't disappear in there.' I mean inside herself, where I'll never get to her.
~ Jennifer Niven