Quotes About Emotion

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.