Emotions and Feelings

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

Music heals all forms of misery

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change more than it does destruction.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Let your peace be a victory!

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.