Emotion Quotes

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

~ Sherwood Smith

In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson

~ Eric Blehm

He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

~ Robin Hobb

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

~ Criss Jami

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.

~ Veronica Roth

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

~ Anita Shreve

Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.Still pretty,But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.

~ Cody Edward Lee Miller

The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.

~ Nicole Lyons

This is the terrible thing girls like us have in common she explained. Parents, upbringings,lifestyles, that are painfully normal. Middle class.It was almost amoral, being raised this way, she told me fiercely. We'd never really understand pain. And wasn't that the human condition? By shielding us from the real world, pressing their palms over our eyes during all the bad parts. our parents -our parents-were keeping us separate from humanity. We were something else entirely

~ Meg Haston

There are two types of pain; one that hurt you, and one that changes who you are.

~ Jettie Woodruff

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

~ Criss Jami

Hope is sure and steadfast trust.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

~ Benjamin Meadows

It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

~ Robin Hobb

I had been much more in love with my wife than she with me, that was all. Somehow, you were supposed to be ashamed of this, as though love were a perpetual jostling for the roles of pursuer and pursued. As if it didn’t take more courage to admit that someone held your hopes of happiness in their hands. As if it were a choice.

~ Amanda Craig

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

~ Mohammed Ali Bapir

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

~ John Cage

Music is feelings in search of words.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

~ Oliver Sacks

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

~ Deke Sharon

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physical and emotional joy. It was sensuous, a pure pleasure, which didn't take away from the emotions being expressed—even if they were melancholic. Music can do that; you can enjoy singing about something sad.

~ David Byrne

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that corresponded to emotional states, and they'd be avaliable to pop into the deck when each feeling needed reinforcing or soothing. The mixtape was your friend, your psychiatrist, and your solace.

~ David Byrne

Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children.

~ Armando Iannucci

She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality — she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.

~ Ravindra Shukla

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?

~ Honoré De Balzac

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

~ Deke Sharon

Play with the emotions, play with the heart and the animal will surrender to yo

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Just make sure the day doesn’t pass without sayin’ what’s in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they’re gone forever.

~ Dan Groat

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

It’s a difficult thing having a heart made of glass, people don’t seem to realize how easily it shatters. How often I’ve swept up the pieces and carefully glued them back together.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

~ Andrea Gibson

I looked inward at my heart. And indeed, there too, the criss-cross corsetry was slackened and gaping. I was all undone. Potentially, I could spill. Or tangle. And so I began to tug at my own heartstrings, pulling them up tight until there was just the right amount of tension at each criss and each cross. Then I bent down to my boots and laced them firmly too, first the left, then the right, finishing off on each side with a surgeon's shoelace knot.

~ Danielle Wood

When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.

~ Dixie Waters

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

~ Hope Mirrlees

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

~ Koren Zailckas

A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality.

~ Dan Groat

Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the same as mood. Emotions, I think, always have to do with agitated forms of desire. Whenever you're in an emotional state, you have some sort of agitated desire. So, emotions are fairly special -- I am not always in some sort of emotional state or other, but I think I am always in some mood or other.

~ John Rogers Searle