Quotes About Emotion

FEAR WITHOUT LOVE—surely there is here a deficiency of love; love without fear—there is nothing here at all. —RABBI YITZCHAK HUTNER (1906–1980)

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

T. S. Eliot was wrong about April being the cruelest month: it's January.

I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Do not however suppose that the conclusion to be drawn will turn out to be one of despair. Angst is an intermittently fashionable emotion and the misreading of some existentialist texts has turned despair itself into a kind of psychological nostrum. But if we are indeed in as bad a state as I take us to be, pessimism too will turn out to be one more cultural luxury that we shall have to dispense with in order to survive in these hard times.

Just because it came from the heart didn't make it good.

Truly, it was beautiful to watch. Cruel, too - I admitted that. But what was beauty without a little cruelty at its heart?

I'd sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn't think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.

Madness, yes . . . but heartfelt madness.

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth

It was good to be loved, good to love another human being – even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Clothes should always feel personal.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.

The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them. I feel very emotional when I'm singing 'Rock Lobster,' but I've wanted to sing more about my personal experience.

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.