Harry Graf Kessler Quotes

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I love life. I love life to death.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

Life is passion, celebration in the face of chaos, light in the face of darkness, hope in the face of despair, and joy, for the universe without life feels nothing, is nothing, and does nothing except slowly die.

Finland is dark and grey, but I'm a very happy, colorful, positive person - and I feel like Eurovision is all about that.

I love life.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

Methought I heard him say, "Ay! I am fairly out, and you fairly in. See which of us will be the happiest.

Now you folks come on and be happy, come on and be happy.

I don't like darkness in everything. I like my superheroes in primary colors, and fun.

Yellow is my favorite summer color - it makes me feel like a sunflower.