Quotes about feelings
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“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Living Loving and Learning

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”

Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World

Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Flowers

“You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Guy, Thinking

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Life, Personality

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor

Source: To Understand Each Other

Love, Understanding

“Seth told us good night and left.

I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Night

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

World, Time, Parting

“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

People, Understanding, Time

“I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

Secret, Intelligence

“But did thee feel the earth move?”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner
but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Variant: Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

People

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Personality

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

Training

“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”

Flora Rheta Schreiber (1918–1988) American journalist

Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Freedom, Universe

“• Dan: I love you.
• Alice: Where?
• Dan: What?
• Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

Love

“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

Truth

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

God, Thinking, Reality, Personality

“I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, Life, Fear, Sister

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

People

“I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

“The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

Time

“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored. D. H. Lawrence began to give instinct a language, he tried to escape the clinical, the scientific, which only captures what the body feels.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 90
Source: Delta of Venus

Sex, Sense, Box

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Disappointment, Dead

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Learning

“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

Time

“Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Bird, Singing

“So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off."
"If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

World, Color, Way, Water

“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: The Short Stories

Girl, Parting, Forgetting

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time

“My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.”

Natsuo Kirino book Grotesque

Source: Grotesque

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Fear

“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Color Master: Stories

Personality

“Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Lying

“I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

World, Dreams, Time, Heart

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The World As I See It

Music

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Love, People, Travel

“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Love

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

“Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Life, Thinking

“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Time

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”

Banana Yoshimoto (1964) Japanese writer

Source: N.P

People, Night

“Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Pain

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

Alice Hoffman book Green Angel

Source: Green Angel

“But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to just face it.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Time

“Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.”

Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman

“I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel."
"Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer.
"Yes. But you'll never be the same.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows

Love, People, Fear

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Personality

“… at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

People, Truth

“You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Personality

“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
Source: Gone Girl

Lie, Waiting

“There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

Way, Soul

“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

Milan Kundera book Identity

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Variant: For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Source: Identity

Pain, Imagination

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”

Nicholas Sparks book See Me

Source: See Me