Quotes about Emotion

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

The bathrobe was magenta, a colour that still makes him anxious whenever he sees it.

The protector was her, the greater power was her, the Universe that took an interest was her as well; always her. "I love you," I said.

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?" "No, it isn't," says Charmaine. "Love isn't like that. With love, you can't stop yourself." She wants the helplessness, she wants…

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.