“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”

“Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“It's alright if you love me,
It's alright if you don't.
I'm not afraid of you runnin' away,
Honey I get the feeling you won't.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

“To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

“Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer