Human Emotions Quotes - Page 3

• Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Emotion, Vulnerable

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• Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Evil, Optimism

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• People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Believe, Love Is

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• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sorry, Self, Daddy

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

  John Gardner

  Fiction, Emotion, Belief

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage

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• I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.

  Tina Fey

  Cute, Dog, Hurt

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

  Michael Pollan

  Pain, Regret, Self

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

  Ezra Pound

  Squares, Giving, Mind

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• Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Empathy, Mind, Body

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• Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

  Peter Høeg

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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• The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.

  Karel Appel

  Art, Thinking, Style

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.

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• Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot.

  Leigh Brackett

  Writing, Reality, People

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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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• I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, Emotion, Fear Of Death

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

  John Cassavetes

  Simple, Emotional, Culture

  "Savages: Silence Yourself" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

  Laurence Olivier

  Drama, Exercise, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  Whitney Houston

  Delicate Things, Perfect, Scary

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• Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Wilhelm Reich (1960). “Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy”

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• empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

  Frances Gray Patton

  Empathy, Emotion, Humans

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• What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Nine, Emotion, Weird Things

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• In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

  Kenzo Tange

  Demand, Architecture, Emotion

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• Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Thinking, Medicine, Stories

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• I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

  Koren Zailckas

  Thinking, Normal, Emotion

  "Getting Angry with author Koren Zailckas". Interview with Megan Johnson, www.bostonherald.com. September 27, 2010.

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