Quotes about Emotions

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

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.