Quotes About Emotion

Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Unhappy is a nice word.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

You don't feel bad when you're dancing. You can't feel unhappy; it's impossible. It's such a natural way to release endorphins.

With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

Music is a unifying force.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.