Quotes About Emotion

Indifference is the knife that severs. Feeling is the tie that binds.

Many of us, either from too little emotion or too much intellect, both of which are stumbling blocks in the way of prayer, cannot believe that which our senses deny. To force ourselves to believe will end in greater doubt.

If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact.

To be realized, then, the wish must be resolved into the feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought.

By shifting his gaze slightly, he saw frame in the sitting room window, a landscape aloof from man. Its beauty was perfectly articulate yet utterly remote. Against his will he was moved by it as an unmusical listener may be profoundly disturbed by sound forms that he is unable to comprehend.

I loved you once is among the saddest lines in humanity.

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

recited the dictum of Felix Pilkington, 'Life is a comedy, with sad bits.

She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.

So she sees if she can drive him off. The MacCarrolls have that little perverse streak in them. She'd rather break her own heart than have it broken. There's an Irish logic to it.

Some things do not bear telling. I think my father knew this. I think he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.

his belief in what the poet called the holiness of the heart's affections

reasons too deep to be fished.

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

Creo que moriré de poesía

XIV Solo con la belleza me conformo La fealdad me produce dolor I go along only with beauty Ugliness hurts me.

If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone if they love you - if you have to ask them, they don't. Or not enough. Not the way you want them to.

Talking hurts the way hurting doesn't.

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Maria mi si è sdraiata accanto. - Ho paura. - Loro hanno paura. - Perchè? - Perchè urlano.

Noi ne-am n?scut în timp ce mamele noastre r?cneau de durere.

The subjects were each placed in a functional MRI scanner and shown the same set of fourteen video clips (including a sentimental music video, a bit of slapstick comedy, a political debate), and the blood flow to various brain regions was individually measured as they viewed

These things have a huge impact on how music is experienced by listeners; they can make one performance profoundly moving, another dull or ridiculous or unintelligible, even though the notes are the same.