Selected emotion quotes

1. I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

2. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

3. Peace begins with a smile.

4. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

5. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

6. Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

7. When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

8. Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

9. There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

10. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

11. Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

12. Live to the point of tears.

13. No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

14. To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

15. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

16. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

17. In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

18. During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

19. The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

20. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

21. I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

22. By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

23. I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel.

24. There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.

25. You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

26. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

27. Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

28. Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

29. A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

30. The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

31. Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

32. Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

33. I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

34. About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

35. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

36. The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

37. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

38. By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

39. This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

40. Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

41. There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

42. Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the strings.The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

43. I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!

44. Now everything was in ruins. The air was still and cold like the air in a refrigerating-room. What I felt was fear; I was afraid to look or speak or move. Everything about me seemed evil. When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

45. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

46. Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

47. Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways.

48. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

49. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

50. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave: Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.

51. Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words...

52. Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... it could not live anywhere else.

53. One mode of emotional excitability is exceedingly important in the composition of the energetic character, from its peculiarly destructive power over inhibitions. I mean what in its lower form is mere irascibility, susceptibility to wrath, the fighting temper; and what in subtler ways manifests itself as impatience, grimness, earnestness, severity of character. Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to one's self - it makes little difference; for when the strenuous mood is on one, the aim is to break something, no matter whose or what. Nothing annihilates an inhibition as irresistibly as anger does it; for, as Moltke says of war, destruction pure and simple is its essence.

54. The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered than the glory and shame that come to nations as well as to individuals from the ups and downs of politics and the vicissitudes of trade.

55. How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!

56. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.

57. At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

58. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy.

59. What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

60. I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

61. If my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel like I've done my job.

62. 1. Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. 2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. 3. Laughter is the bark of delight of a gregarious animal at the proximity of its kind. 4. Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. 5. Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. 6. Laughter is the emotion of tragic delight. 7. Laughter is the female of Tragedy. 8. Laughter is the strong elastic fish, caught in Styx, springing and flapping about until it dies. 9. Laughter is the sudden handshake of mystic violence and the anarchist. 10. Laughter is the mind sneezing. 11. Laughter is the one obvious commotion that is not complex, or in expression dynamic. 12. Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard and unchangeable.

63. And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

64. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

65. You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

66. Angels listen when she speaks: She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

67. I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

68. Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

69. 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad

70. ... loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

71. Tenderness is the repose of Passion

72. The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought

73. There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger

74. There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil,

75. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

76. Paraphrased variant: Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

77. A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. (1449b24)

78. Hope is a waking dream.

79. Fear is exciting for me.

80. Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

81. Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.

82. Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

83. The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.

84. One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude. But in Spain in 1936 we were not living in a normal time. It was a time when generous feelings and gestures were easier than they ordinarily are.

85. Romance is everything.

86. I do not literally paint the table, but the emotion it produces on me...

87. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

88. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

89. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.

90. You don't want to hurt me, But see how deep the bullet lies. Unaware I'm tearing you asunder. Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

91. We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

92. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

93. The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalised, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.

94. Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey; I feel her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train; - The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again.

95. In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.

96. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

97. I cry the way that babies cry The way they can't deny The way they feel Words, they climb all over you 'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

98. A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.

99. Declamation roared, while Passion slept.

100. What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was so exclusive and capricious? The sould offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules- it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through hard work, as with Ian, or completly and heartbreakingly inattainable, as with Jared. Or was it simply better somehow? because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?