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Quotes About Emotion

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
~ Anonymous
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
~ Henry Miller
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
~ Lord Byron
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
~ Tennessee Williams
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~ Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
~ French proverb
'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'
~ Lewis Carroll
Women and elephants never forget.
~ Dorothy Parker
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
~ Immanuel Kant
Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
~ Vittorio De Sica
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.
~ Felicia D. Hemans
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
~ Merlin Olsen
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~ Plato
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.
~ Charles Burney
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
~ John Philip Sousa
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
~ George Eliot
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
~ Jules Combarieu
Music touches places beyond our touching.
~ Keith Bosley
Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
~ Nadia Boulanger
The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form, combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.
~ Donald Francis Tovey
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
~ Thomas Carlyle
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
~ Charles Lamb
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
~ Beethoven