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Quotes About Emotion

Tears won't help me right now. They'll just make me weaker.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.
~ Michele Jaffe, Ghost Flower
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
~ Aurora
Logic cannot comprehend love
~ so much the worse for logic.
Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.
~ David Byrne, How Music Works
Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
~ David Brooks
Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.
~ J.W. Lord
If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
~ Thomas Fuller
Wonder ... music heard in the heart is voiceless.
~ Rosemary Dobson
Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
~ Anonymous
I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
~ Kenny G
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
~ Joseph Stalin
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
~ Leonid Afremov
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~ Billy Joel
The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
~ Philippe Starck
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
I love Humanity but I hate humans
~ Albert Einstein
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
~ Oscar Wilde
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
~ James Dickey, Self-Interviews
The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.
~ Kylie Minogue
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
~ Deepak Chopra