158 Real Emotion Quotes

Following is our list of real emotion quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what are emotions.

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Famous Real Emotion Quotes

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. — Angel Haze

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. — Afrojack

Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling. — Sayings

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity. — Wynonna Judd

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. — John Junor

What I like is to feel emotion… and I agree even more when I see the sales results. — Bernard Arnault

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way. — Steve Vai

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. — Judith Wright

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. — Sanford Meisner

Sex is an emotion in motion. - Mae West

Sex is an emotion in motion. — Mae West

You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive. — Mac Anderson

Tears are words the heart can't express - Gerard Way

Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. — Etta James

First feelings are always the most natural. - Louis XIV

First feelings are always the most natural. — Louis XIV

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt

Short Real Emotion Quotes

  • Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard. — Anna Akhmatova
  • The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. — Caspar David Friedrich
  • Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being — Margaret Floy Washburn
  • To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art. — Isadora Duncan
  • Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. — George Jean Nathan
  • Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion. — Robert M. Hensel
  • Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. — Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. — Wale
  • There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion. — Gertrude Bell
  • The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always. — Jurgen Klopp

Real Emotion Image Quotes

Real emotion quote Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.

The Real Emotion Quotes

To experience love, we must go inside. When you experience real love you get into a state which is beyond words. You are filled with a joy that goes beyond all emotions. True love is the love of the inner Self. — Swami Muktananda

In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions. — Glenn Cunningham

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. — John Vinocur

Real emotion quote The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. — James Harvey Robinson

The hallmark of a real man is controlling himself, controlling his emotions, and acting appropriately regardless of how he feels. — Andrew Tate

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me. — Judith Jamison

Real emotion quote It is when you finally learn that your  are all in your mind that your real life begins.
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.

Never fall in love with someone that won’t fight for you because when the real battles begin they won’t pull your heart to safety, but they will their own. — Shannon Alder

Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. — Gary Chapman

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. — Franz Liszt

The greatest marketing secret of all time is that people buy more when you make their problems and desires feel more real. — Russell Brunson

What Are Emotions Quotes

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. — John Denver

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Frederick Buechner

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about. — Matthieu Ricard

Real emotion quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

If you are angry, use it. If you are sad, use it. Because what else are you going to do with it? You might as well let it help you instead of hurt you. — Alex Hormozi

Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates success. We are happiest when we follow what is in our hearts. — Chatri Sityodtong

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. — Shannon Alder

Real emotion quote Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't sh
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.

Fighters can say whatever, but what they are feeling inside, it’s totally different. — Valentina Shevchenko

...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed. — Gregory of Nazianzus

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. — A.L. Williams

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

Emotion Code Quotes

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. — William Gibson

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!) — Mat McNerney

Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue. — Judith Martin

Real emotion quote Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. — Jay Asher

We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion. — John Yau

[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond. — Lionel Tiger

Real emotion quote In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional. — Ben Horowitz

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes. — Neil Gaiman

Emotional Value Quotes

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. — Brian Tracy

Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. — Mark Manson

If what we value is unhelpful, if what we consider success/failure is poorly chosen, then everything based upon those values—the thoughts, the emotions, the day-to-day feelings—will all be out of whack. — Mark Manson

Real emotion quote Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. — Camille Anna Paglia

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. - Warren Buffett

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. — Warren Buffett

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another. — Ruth Benedict

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl. — Priyanka Chopra

A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realize its value till it’s gone. — Vijay Kedia

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter. — Harold Lasswell

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. — Tennessee Williams

Raw Emotion Quotes

Emotional state determines future outcomes; controlling emotions starts with proper raw materials and physiology in the body. — Gary Brecka

Without a deep understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy, irrational, impulsive, emotionally driven animals, all the raw intelligence and mathematical logic in the world is little help. — Chris Voss

Write about the emotions you fear the most. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. — Harville Hendrix

Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most. — Lysa TerKeurst

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby. — Kate Beckinsale

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. — Peggy Noonan

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite. — Judy Tatelbaum

When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person. — F. Gary Gray

I feel like Im able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color. — Big Sean

True Emotions Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot. — Tom Platz

True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. — Mark Manson

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience. — Leonard Ravenhill

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. — Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life. — Colleen Hoover

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. — H. G. Wells

There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality. — Gabrielle Roth

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. — Dalai Lama

Real Feelings Quotes

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real. - Lil Wayne

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real. — Lil Wayne

Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. — Carl Jung

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. — Billie Holiday

Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel. — Pocahontas

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard P. Feynman

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me. — Haruki Murakami

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul. — Joey Ramone

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God. — Paul Washer

Emotional Expression Quotes

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. — Melanie Martinez

The eyes are the mirror of the soul. — Japanese Proverbs

When the heart is full the tongue will speak. — Scottish Proverbs

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. — Oliver Sacks

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Jackson Pollock

Cried like a cat. — Russian Proverbs

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. — Arnold Schoenberg

Human Emotions Quotes

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? — Saadat Hasan Manto

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — John Bowlby

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. — John Trudell

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. — H. P. Lovecraft

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. — Albert Ellis

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. — James A. Michener

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. — Henry Beston

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More Real Emotion Quotes

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions. — Harriet Lerner

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion. — George Eads

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others. — Freddie Mercury

You can bend your counterpart’s reality by anchoring his starting point. Before you make an offer, emotionally anchor them by saying how bad it will be. When you get to numbers, set an extreme anchor to make your 'real' offer seem reasonable, or use a range to seem less aggressive. — Chris Voss

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs. — Raj Patel

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point. — Guy Clark

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness. — William Lyon Phelps

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it — Shakti Gawain

Danger is real. Heartache is real. Fear is not. It’s a story we tell ourselves. — Brianna Wiest

If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it. — Nipsey Hussle

The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs. — David Deida

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. — Angela Carter

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing. — Ian Mckellen

I feel great at Real Sociedad. It is a second family for me. — Antoine Griezmann

The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman. — Sarah Bernhardt

The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona. — Sergio Aguero

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect. — Jim Rohn

Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. — Doc Childre

I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating. — Zoe Saldana

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema. — David Lynch

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. — Michael W. Smith

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. — John Drinkwater

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one. — Sheldon Whitehouse

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels — Daniel Goleman

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids. — Wynton Marsalis

I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me. — Judd Apatow

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion? — Paolo Sorrentino

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet. — Tony Robbins

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs

Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues. — Stanley Greenspan

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship. — David D. Burns

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. — Adam Levine

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there. — Erma Bombeck

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