Quotes About Emotion

Quiero domar el dolor como si fuera un animal salvaje.

Emily Dickinson reminds us what it's like to be alive. And when she does—she takes our breath away.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms and dies, steps out for a cigarette and blows tendrils of information and emotion back under the door.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Dancing is very like poetry.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.

Love was rather terrifying. Something so hard to find should not be so easily lost.

Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns…" There was laughter again then, and applause, and a cry, "Well sung!

Sociopathy stands alone as a "disease" that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective "treatment.

Imagine—if you can—not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members.