Bonnie Raitt Quotes

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.

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

You like me, or you hate me. There's really no in between.

I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

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.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.