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Quotes About Emotion

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
~ Ovid
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
~ Maria Augusta von Trapp
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
~ Lauren Oliver
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
~ Laozi
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
~ Johnny Depp
If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
~ Yoshida Kenko
Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.
~ Madonna Ciccone
A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
~ Colbie Caillat
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
~ Anton Ehrenzweig
Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
~ Prentice Mulford
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Collateral
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
~ Joan Baez
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
~ Andy Biersack
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
~ Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.
~ Josh Groban
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita
~ Laura Esquivel
There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.
~ Frederic Chopin
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
~ Martin Buber
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
~ Amy Tan