The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Love is trembling happiness.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

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

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

It’s a funny old world.

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

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

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

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.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Fear is real, but so is love.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

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.