Quotes About Emotion

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

Emily Dickinson

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.