Quotes About Emotion

The poets are wrong when they describe the grave as cold.

Psychopahy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their babies in past generations.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas

Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefühle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu können.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

She had learned from Jack, much to her surprise, that she could not make her face express anger or scorn by merely feeling angry or scornful.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

All music is the blues. All of it.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Expenditure–like ugliness and errors–becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.