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Quotes About Emotion

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
~ Macklemore
Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!
~ Martha Ostenso
Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.
~ Martin Amis
Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.
~ Mat Kearney
Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
~ Ziggy Marley
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
~ Stephen King, Misery
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
~ Mike Mills
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
~ James Gates Percival
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
~ Ang Lee
Life is a very emotional experience.
~ Tony Goldwyn
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
~ Erica Jong
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
~ Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
~ Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
~ Simon Van Booy
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?
~ Margaret Carlson
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.
~ Eddie Cahill
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller