Quotes About Emotion

Sometimes I felt as if I could not bear it any longer to be away from you!

My work as a painter… is the condensation, the concentration of the hidden, but ever present, sadness that is in all people

Music's the medicine of the mind.

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. –WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

So this is what love is. It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

This is. The apotheosis. Of how she makes me feel.

Death is complicated." -Johann Kraus

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I've always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living.

There is no last page to the poetry of John Ashbery. You will have had the experience; you can always have it again.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with one big angry red patch on it, but Jesus fucking God she was beautiful, and if you don't understand that, I'm sorry for you.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

To fuss is human; to rant, divine!

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief.

Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the feeling of the story can transform a nameless event into a familiar or intimate one.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

When will indifference come.