Paulo Coelho Quotes

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

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

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

I just love human emotion and faces.

I'm a very passionate person. I'm Italian, it's in my blood so when I care about something, I get emotional.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

I usually don't cry at movies, although I will get sad. I'm okay with it, though. It's good to make people cry.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.