Emotional Language Quotes

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.