Emotional Salvation Quotes

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Music saved me from a really dark road.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.