Philip James Bailey Quotes

Life is a very emotional experience.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

My trade and art is to live.

I'm writing about emotions.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

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

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.