Quotes about Emotion

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies, -neighbors are kind enough for that, -but to do the like office to our spirits. For this few are rich enough, however well disposed they may be.

I need thy hate as much as thy love.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Truth guides what you say while love guides how, why, and when you say it. When love is the fertile soil, truth becomes a more fruitful seed.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.