Quotes about Emotion

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.

I want ordinary corrupt human love

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [...]

Because I couldn't bear the thought of her so much as touching another man, I feared it all the time, and I saw intimacy in the most casual movement of her hand.

Why is it that the hate of man — even of a man like Franco — dies with his death, and yet love, the love which he had begun to feel for Father Quixote, seemed now to live and grow in spite of the final separation and the final silence — for how long, he wondered with a kind of fear, was it possible for that love of his to continue? And to what end?

Many people have trouble passionately loving and living for God because they have a mental picture of him that inspires anything but passion.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

I'd rather be nowhere with her then somewhere without her.

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.