Quotes About Emotion

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Envy is human nature.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.