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Quotes About Emotion

He has only heard what I felt.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Something fell off the shelf inside her
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
pay no attention to what I say about love, for as I said before, it may not mean a thing. It is my own bathtub singing. Just because my mouth opens up like a prayer book, it does not just have to flap like a Bible.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skill. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of him mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Her voice began snagging on the prongs of her feelings.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Mrs.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Không Ä'au Ä'á»›n nào lá»›n b?ng vi?c ph?i mang trong mình má»™t câu chuy?n không ???c k? ra.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It gave me something to feel about.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
They don't know if life is a mess of cornmeal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I still love Abba.
~ Panos Cosmatos
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
~ Bob Geldof
Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.
~ Chuck Berry
Love is the absolute basis of my career.
~ James Ivory
I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.
~ Tobias Jesso, Jr.
War is an abstraction.
~ Bruce Jackson