I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Love is the one wild card.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Comedy’s about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you’re saying.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Hatred is settled anger.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.