Quotes About Emotion

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Unlike everything else in these pages, my sketchbook was never intended for any sort of publication. In fact, it was never really meant to be seen by anyone. It's the closest thing I have to a diary, and it exists mainly for my own amusement, practice and mental health.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

THE USES OF SORROW by Mary Oliver (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

The minister in our church: He spoke in a way that said there was a rage inside religion.

My visionary anger cleansing my sight.

You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

You've kissed my hair to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone… and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity

The moment the feeling enters the body is political.

why should the wild child weep for the scientists why

A dream of tenderness wrestles with all I know of history

I ache, brilliantly.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.

My only passion is music.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.