Quotes About Emotion

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Only exercise on the days you want to improve your mood.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking-- I do not question why.

Affection is love shown.

The answer is the answer to so many of our questions about how best to act in an emotionally tense situation: Withdraw from the conflict.

Suicide is a permanent decision to a temporary feeling.

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

Barry Cooper. Beethoven. Oxford University Press: USA, 2008

Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ, 1993