Quotes About Emotion

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair, "said G.K. Chesterton.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.

Words alone are never enough to convey meaning: prosody is an essential feature of adult verbal exchanges. Consider the exclamation 'Really!' It can imply surprise, disbelief, disapproval, enthusiasm, disdain, and perhaps many other meanings, each of which must be conveyed by intonation rather than by the word itself.

Music more aptly represents human emotional processes because music, like life, appears to be in constant motion.

Stravinsky's ideal was to create works in which the personal dimension is eliminated, which is why Constant Lambert condemned his neoclassical work as inhuman and mechanical.

Wagner's music has the power to plumb new depths and uncover passions never before consciously experienced

With few exceptions, psychotherapists have omitted to consider the fact that the capacity to be alone is also an aspect of emotional maturity.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

September 26, Newport went a little mad with grief. It was possibly,

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

According to Seneca: 'Turning pale, shedding tears, the first stirrings of sexual arousal, a deep sigh, a suddenly sharpened glance, anything along these lines: whoever reckons them a clear token of passion and a sign of the mind's engagement is just mistaken and fails to understand that they're involuntary bodily movements.