Quotes about Feelings

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

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

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.