Quotes about Emotion

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Where words leave off, music begins.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.