Quotes about Emotions

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.