Ryan Adams Quotes

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

I can access emotions very easily.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

I am an emotional person.

I'm very big on feeling.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

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

I am a very emotional guy.

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

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.