Emotion Quotes - Page 8

• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Work, Cows, Way

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.53, Northwestern University Press

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• A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Art, Giving, Able

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Reflecting

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Feelings, Ends

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.36, MIT Press

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• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

  Max Eastman

  Choices, Mind, Unions

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

  Og Mandino

  Winning, Self, Sound

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• 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

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• Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Purpose, Having Hope

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Puppets, Analysis, Fantastic

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Swings, Swirls

  Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company

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• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  Iris Murdoch

  Technique, Literature, Said

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• Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

  Robert Redford

  Reality, Keys, Stories

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

  Paul Engle

  Ideas, Reading Poetry, Skins

  New York Times, February 17, 1957.

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• To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Humans, Our Lives, Human Emotions

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• Our brain is the factory of the emotions

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Brain, Factories

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Engagement, Finest

  "After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration". Book by Peter Barker, Cecil G. Shugart (p. 179), 1981.

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• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Home, Emotions Feelings, Sentiments

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The heart is forever inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Forever, Inexperience

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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