Quotes About Emotion

True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love,

In most cases we have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experience the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive, which in turn makes it less memorable, and so on. It's this psychological feedback loop that makes initially infuriating offenses seem pardonable in the mirror of hindsight.

I've gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At

True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love, and that's something that nothing can obscure.

like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

When Kokwa told the story, he didn't merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes. He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. None of that was captured on paper; only the bare words could be written down. And reading just the words gave you only a hint of the experience of listening to Kokwa himself, as if one were licking the pot in which okra had been cooked instead of eating the okra itself.

I've gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

during the party he saw her smile twice and frown once; at those moments, her entire countenance assumed the expression as if it had never known another.

infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

People are made of stories

for like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

Por un lado está la verdad de los hechos; por el otro, la verdad del sentimiento del autor, y donde coinciden las dos ninguna autoridad externa puede prestarse a decidirlo.

The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

We found that feeling appreciated and believing that your spouse values you directly influences how you feel about your marriage, how committed you are to it, and your belief that it will last.

I know why the best blues artist comes from Mississippi," Hooker told an interviewer from Melody Maker in 1964. "Because it's the worst state. You have the blues all right if you're down in Mississippi.

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.

Then, having had a good cry about my being gone, he'd collect himself and get on with his life, proceeding south into the village, with head and tail erect.

I gotta right to sing the blues,I gotta right to feel low down,I gotta right to hang aroundDown around the river.

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

I feel the bear's heart in her footprints.

The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist's own humanity in the finished piece.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.