Geoff Dyer Quotes

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.

Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I feel things deeply.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

You cannot just scream and yell unless you feel it in your whole body.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.

This game will make you cry more often than not.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.