Quotes About Emotion

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life.

Scars are but evidence of life.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

For me and others who have attended the sessions, as well as for the abductees themselves, it is this intensity of recovered emotion that lends inescapable authenticity to the phenomenon.

Indeed, the alien abduction phenomenon seems to open abductees and those who work with them to deeper realms of human emotion, whether or not that is a specific "purpose" of the phenomenon.

It is hard to imagine how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template for that emotion.