True Emotions Quotes

• I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Pain, Emotion, Melancholy

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• True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Heart, Humanity, Utterance

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

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• If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

  Joshua Harris

  Reality, Thinking, Two

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• I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

  John Lydon

  Song, Feelings, Matter

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

  John Lasseter

  Believe, Add, Needs

  "John Lasseter Gives the Lowdown on Bolt". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2009.

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• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Flower, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

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• I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

  Ryan McGinley

  Animal, Years, Two

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• They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.

  Leonard Cohen

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

  Mitch Albom

  World, Emotion, Apathetic

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Flower, Simple, Secret

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• But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Curiosity

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