What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

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.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

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?

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I don’t like being alone.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

I dote on his very absence.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

My friends, there are no friends.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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