Quotes About Emotion

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart?

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Anger isn't harmful, it's what we do with anger that causes problems.

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

people who know about such things insist there are only two basic emotions: Love and Fear. All other emotions, they say, are variations on either of these two themes. At every moment of every day we choose either love or fear.

And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

We seldom say we love someone with all of our head, send brain-shaped candy on Valentine's Day, or tell our lover that we want to give our brain to them.

That's what sex is: inserting your heart into someone else's heart.

His face was frozen in a grimace, as if he had woken from a bad dream only to find that he had not been asleep at all.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person's soul?

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

Love was like death that way.

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

Passions are power. – Darth Malgus

For a moment, caught up in the aftereffects of his vision, Vader wondered what it would be like to face his Master in battle, to take his small, frail body in his hands, lift it from the ground, and…

their fear fed his anger.

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came to you. Sometimes you can know that such an image has been selected to stay with you forever out of the hundreds you every day encounter.

Art should return to its roots, to cosmology, to rite, and to ceremony. The religious nature of art is its true meaning. Modern art's commitment to "emotion" and "feeling" or to abstract principles of design is, by Pleistocene standards, a sacrilegious act, just as narcotics belong not in a recreational but in a religious setting. In most small-scale societies there is regular dialogue on divinatory and dream experience that gets translated into art.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

David's charm, which he'd learned to focus with dazzling effectiveness. He'd take words out of his companion's sentences and repeat them, as if they had crystallized thoughts in his own mind; when bumping into someone again, he'd act as if he'd been barely able to function in the intervening minutes. Sometimes, talking to him, the objects of his attention would experience that giddy, tingly feeling you get when you're in love.