Milan Kundera Quotes

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

Feelings don't lie.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.