Ian Mcewan Quotes

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

There's not much difference between love and hate.

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.