Quotes About Emotion

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.