Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Emotion' is a strange word.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

Action is the right outlet of emotion.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.