emotional sincerity Quotes

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.

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

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who's uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.