Sandra Cisneros Quotes

This game will make you cry more often than not.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

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

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

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

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.