Quotes About Emotion

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint."Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."Inns are not residences.

So he who strongly feels, behaves.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly.

The heart never becomes wrinkled.

You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

I am living. I remember you.

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

The Psalmist (PS. 55:12-14) also knew the harm that came from someone very close and how much more painful that was than from a stranger.

Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.

Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

El cuerpo acusa la agresión antes que el cerebro, que se niega a ver lo que no consigue comprender.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

the words of Pyotr Stephanovich come into my mind: You must love God because He is the only one you can love for Eternity. That sounds very profound to me, and tears come into my eyes whenever I say it. I never heard anyone else say it. But I don't believe in God and if I did I couldn't love Him/Her/It. I couldn't love anyone I thought had created this world.