Quotes About Emotion

Art is the highest form of hope.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

Anger without power is folly.

Haven't you heard a word I've said?" She kissed Luke softly on the lips, then whispered, "There's only you." She smiled, her lips still pressed firmly against Luke. I feel like I've been waiting for you my whole life.

Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.

You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel?

Pigeons on the grass alas.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

He was in love with me. Or rather, he yearned to be me. Which is, perhaps, the most instantaneous and absolute characteristic of love.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Amami, per Dio. Ho bisogno d'amore, amore, amore, fuoco, entusiasmo, vita

All is mystery except our pain.

Io non ho bisogno di stima, né di gloria, né di altre cose simili; ma ho bisogno d'amore.

Le altre arti imitano ed esprimono la natura da cui si trae il sentimento, ma la musica non imita e non esprime che lo stesso sentimento in persona, ch'ella trae da se stessa e non dalla natura, e così l'uditore.

È cosa notata che il gran dolore (come ogni grande passione) non ha linguaggio esterno.

Dalla lettura di un pezzo di vera, contemporanea poesia, in versi o in prosa (ma più efficace impressione è quella de' versi), si può, e forse meglio (anche in questi sì prosaici tempi), dir quello che di un sorriso diceva lo Sterne: che essa aggiunge un filo alla tela brevissima della nostra vita.