Quotes About Emotion

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

What was that, Kylie? Just a thank-you for saving your life.. or was it more?

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

I can't imagine life without singing.

My home is not a place, it is people.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.