461 quotes found
“Were we incapable of empathy of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is...”
“Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul”
“Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.”
“The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.”
“Music is feelings in search of words.”
“Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.”
“Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.”
“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wante...”
“The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that ...”
“If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.”
“She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a cr...”
“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how...”
“Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to be strong. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.”
“I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it.”
“Just make sure the day doesnt pass without sayin whats in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and theyre gone forever.”
“I looked inward at my heart. And indeed, there too, the criss-cross corsetry was slackened and gaping. I was all undone. Potentially, I could spill. Or tangle. And so I began to tug at my own heart...”
“When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.”
“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
“Too much stress cannot be laid...upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness,...”
“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”
