Quotes about Emotional Resonance

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

There were many books inside me by then, and yet these jolted me with their originality. I met the man before I read what he had written, but if I had not loved his work as I did or if he had not admired my writing, it would have changed things. Our work has been an intimate part of our love affair and marriage for twenty-three years, but what I read wasn't then and isn't now what I know when I'm with him. His work comes from the place in him I can't know.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders

It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.