Milan Kundera Quotes

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I can access emotions very easily.

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I'm not too big on feelings.

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

I do have feelings.

I don't get emotional.

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

I want to explore the range of emotions it is possible to feel.