emotion quotes

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Beauty without expression is boring.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

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.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Music is something no one can control.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

The song ‚Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I only act from my heart.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.