Quotes about Emotional Resonance

If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.

Music is my higher power

Music is part of being human.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

We tend to match the emotions of those around us. For example, we're more prone to become stressed when we're around someone who is high-strung. And we're more likely to be in a good mood when others around us are laughing.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No.

His sadness resonated with me and we were drawn to one another.

Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.

Seguía escrupulosamente los horarios de las Bolsas y las variaciones del Mercado de Valores. Así entretenía mis insominos. Era bastante asocial. La música me emocionaba. Era lo único que distraía la tristeza y los sedimentos de los días y su recuerdo.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

Some words may make you happy, some may make you sad. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.

When people subconsciously begin to associate you with positive moods and emotions, you are going to be the bell that makes people smile without realizing why.

Il essayait vainement de se rappeler dans quel livre était écrit que chaque première rencontre est une blessure.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

La música existe para cuando nos fallan las palabras. (Kvothe)