Quotes About Emotion

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

History paints the human heart.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.