Rachel Cohn Quotes

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.

My first fight was incredible; it was surreal. I almost forgot I had to fight, I was so overcome with emotion. It was just an amazing experience.

Love is a very strong emotion and a very powerful emotion.

When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.

Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.