Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

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

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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.

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

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.