Quotes about Emotional Resonance

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

You dont need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each others waves.

People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I cant make your heart feel something it wont.

All of your empty words had such an impact on me.

Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesnt work if you're not on the same page.

Sometimes I think we need to tell our stories more than anyone needs to hear our stories. Maybe just so that anticipation or happiness can be reached for again. But other times it is almost as if the story itself wants repeating. So that the strand of hair caught in a kiss or the turn of a beautiful face isn't lost forever. So that, especially when it comes to beauty, we're not alone and left with the burden of remembering.

How do you know you've made a great work of art? A great work of art is something as real as reality itself, and sometimes even more real than the real. Long after this war is forgotten, when its existence is a paragraph in a schoolbook students won't even bother to read, and everyone who survived it is dead, their bodies dust, their memories atoms, their emotions no longer in motion, this work of art will still shine so brightly it will not just be about the war but it will be the war.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Há pessoas com quem as palavras são desnecessárias. Nos entendíamos e amávamos mudamente, meu pai e eu. Talvez pelo fato de sua figura emocionar-me tanto, evitei sempre pisar com ele o terreno das coisas emocionais, pois estou certo de que, se começássemos a falar, cairíamos os dois em pranto, tão grandes eram em nós os motivos para chorar.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!

Two hundred years from now nobody will care much about our politics. But if we were truly moved by the things that happened to us, they may read our poems.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.

It really seemed that Edek was answering the questions that Mendel was asking himself, that he read in the depths of Mendel's brain, in that secret bed where thoughts are born. But it itsn't so strange, Mendel thought; two good clocks mark the same hour, even if they are of different make. They only have to start together.