Quotes About Emotion

Hot lovers don't feel the cold.

Love turns the sensible stupid and the shy wild.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.

My heart aches love for you.

Love is a river of risk that ends in an ocean of security.

Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other time in the whole year can equal. And by sweetness is meant more than flower fragrance or honey taste; this is the greater sweetness of understanding and emotion, the glow of pleasure in being.

Each man's memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.

Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.

Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.

Music!—who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence?

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is what life sounds like.

Music is the color of sound.

[M]ore than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.

Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.