Quotes About Emotion

Wine is bottled poetry.

Gored by the climacteric of his want,he stalls above me like an elephant.

your old-fashioned tirade—loving, rapid, merciless—breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

he is eloquently angry

What we love we are.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.

But it was on the occasions that he did the unexpected that he felt the most alive. Time seemed to stop; hours slowed to minutes, separated into seconds, halted into pictures. Still life images of emotion.

Rebecca West would not be a passing fancy; she would assume a leading role in his life—he could feel it in his bones—and was he ready for that?

Relativity, he reflected, was simple compared to the mysteries of Eros.

THE BERING STRAIT, 1918 "Sergei, do not die," the girl said, turning around in the open boat. "I forbid you to die." She had hoped, in vain, that her voice would not falter. When she tried to reach out to him, he pulled away, still holding on to the tiller with dead-white fingers.

humming a few bars of vintage Springsteen.

Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.

Thought can be controlled and manipulated, but emotion is willful and unpredictable.

The repetition of "serious" emotion is, in fact, a favorite comic device.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

When talented people write badly it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they're driven by an emotion they must express.

Story Climax is the fourth of the five-part structure. This crowning Major Reversal is not necessarily full of noise and violence. Rather, it must be full of meaning. If I could send a telegram to the film producers of the world, it would be these three words: "Meaning Produces Emotion." Not money; not sex; not special effects; not movie stars; not lush photography.

In life, idea and emotion come separately. Mind and passions revolve in different spheres of our humanity, rarely coordinated, usually at odds. In fact, in life, moments that blaze with a fusion of idea and emotion are so rare, when they happen you think you're having a religious experience. But whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion.

The audience wants to be taken to the limit, to where all questions are answered, all emotion satisfied—the end of the line.

Henry James wrote brilliantly about story art in the prefaces to his novels, and once asked: "What, after all, is an event?" An event, he said, could be as little as a woman putting her hand on the table and looking at you "that certain way.

When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.