Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Love is a state of being.

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.

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

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

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

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

I’m an emotional person.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

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.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

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

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

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

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The human heart is the same the world over.

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

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.

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

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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

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.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Of course I get hurt.

Acting is happy agony.

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

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

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

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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

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.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.