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Quotes About Emotion

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.
~ Rosalind Miles
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
~ Samuel Johnson
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.
~ Scott Kahn
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
~ Skeet Ulrich
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.
~ Stefan Zweig
There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.
~ Stephen De Staebler
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Has that line ever worked for anyone?" "I'm not feeding you lines. I mean every word." … "Day One of my life was the day I met you." "Okay, that's a winner. You can put it in.
~ Sylvia Day
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
~ Tara Brach
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
~ Taylor Swift
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
~ Thomas Otway
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
~ Tony Robbins
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
~ Donald Hall
We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
~ A Fine Frenzy
Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
~ Baker Brownell
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
~ Barbra Streisand
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.
~ Brett Favre
He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.
~ Candace Bushnell
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
~ Scott Stossel
Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
~ Silas House