Quotes About Emotion

Some people think 'Higher' is about literally getting high, and other people think it's more in a spiritual sense. To me, it's all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state - emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

When something's really significant, whether it's good, bad, ugly, I like being able to look back at a moment in time that was high-emotion. Whenever I'm crying I like, weirdly, to document it.

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technology at our disposal, everything is becoming obvious. Nothing is surprising. You can see beautiful things on Instagram, but there is something that doesn't touch you deeply. Everything is normal, while there's nothing that grabs you and turns you upside down.

While I think love is a beautiful emotion, I can't make simple love stories any more. In the time that I have, I would like to make films about things that move and bother me.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

I lost my head for a little while.