Vita Sackville-West Quotes

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.

I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

I hurt hard and I love hard.

I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that.

Do I have a cold heart? Some say.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.

The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

I'm an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can't.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.