Quotes About Emotion

A feeling rose in me, and I just let it, because what harm could it do? It only had another thirty-two adagio bars of life in this world. Twenty-four. Sixteen. Eight more bars in which I love you. Three. Two. One.

There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.

He didn't wear his heart on his sleeve, exactly, but he did keep it in a place where I could see it.

Keeping my smile raised like a shield between us, I curtsied and quit the room.

I did 'The Vow' because I really love being in love.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Coming Home' is the love story, and how - kind of emotionally real it is, and how these two characters allow each other to see their - kind of vulnerabilities. And it's great because it's a love story that's not really that cheesy, either.

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

Olivia Hussey from Zefferelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's a kind of thrill to that as well.

Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.

I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

My thing has always been, I've never been very open and vulnerable with people, so the minute I got this dog, everything changed. It just opened me up and made me more loving... It's all because of him... He's made me a better person... I can tell people what I feel now. I can cry in front of people sometimes.

That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.