Diane Ackerman Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

• The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

  Diane Ackerman

  Design, Emotion, Kind

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.268, Vintage

• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Together, Records

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

• As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Guilt, Fleeting

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

• Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Light, White

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

• We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Thinking, Knives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

• Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Anxiety, Mind

• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Army, Love Is, White

• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Self, Brain

  "The Brain on Love" by Diane Ackerman, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 24, 2012.

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