Quotes about feelings
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“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

Love, Pain, Hate, People

“The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty…. I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Way, Problem, Thinking

“No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Light

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

Allan Pease book The Definitive Book of Body Language

Source: The Definitive Book of Body Language

“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”

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

Life, Tree, Animals

“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Death

“My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

World, Confidence, Sense, Time

“You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.”

Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda

Source: Oscar and Lucinda

“you will never catch up.
Walk around feeling like a leaf
know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

--The Art of Disappearing”

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952) American writer

Source: Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

Art, Time

“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: A Killing Frost

Imagination, Memory

“I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience”

Douglas Coupland book Girlfriend in a Coma

Source: Girlfriend in a Coma

Life, Youth, Time

“Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages…”

Rebecca Wells book Little Altars Everywhere

Source: Little Altars Everywhere

Love, Books, Way, Help

“It wasn’t sexy,” he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said…
“It wasn’t,” said Alec.
“I had some feelings,” said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Princess

“It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not…”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Stupidity, Fear, Nature

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Time

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Thinking

“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Watermelon

Books, World

“Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute.
'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Thinking

“Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel.
“Sebastian says I can come with you.”
Jace raised his eyebrows.
“Matching haircuts for everyone?”
“I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile, Hope

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Thinking

“I’m not attached to anything.
I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Thinking

“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Decision, Time

“That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.”

Tracy Kidder (1945) writer

Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

People, Help

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
“I always do, Alexander,” he said. “I always do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Smile, Heart

“I can feel you, even though I can't see you.”

Nancy Holder (1953) American writer

Source: Wicked: Witch & Curse

“If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Forgetting

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Books, Dogs, Thinking, Reading

“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”

David Levithan book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

World

“In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Way, Strong, Wolf, Fight

“Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Flowers, Sun

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

World, Change

“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Hell, Help, Dead

“Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.”

Primo Levi book The Periodic Table

Source: The Periodic Table

Mountain

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Variant: It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Source: Clockwork Prince

Books

“Don't you ever feel that way? Likecould do a better job if you rqan the world?'
'Um… no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

World, Way

“But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.
-Aphrodite”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Beauty, Nature, Change, Perfection

“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Variant: Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Tear, Heart

“Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.”

Raegan Butcher Rusty String Quartet

Source: Rusty String Quartet

Heart, Animals, Dead

“For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Hurt

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Country

“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

World, Childhood

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think…”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Thinking

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer

As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28

Truth, Time, Daughters

“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

World, Beauty, Change

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Time

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Pain, Beauty

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

School, Girl

“The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”

Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Music

“Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Hurtful

“And only weaklings… who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

World, Courage

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Dreams, Knowledge

“Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Variant: ... I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

Way

“Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Disease, Behavior, Error, Fish

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Happiness, Thinking

“Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

Source: Out of Place

Memory, Hurt

“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

People, Clothes

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Age

“Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Stupidity, Jerk, Thinking

“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.”

Joyce Carol Oates book You Must Remember This

Source: You Must Remember This

Love

“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Drawing

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Life, Failure

“The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

Fear, Courageous

“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Hell, Thinking

“We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you.
We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too.
For you, this translate into confidence. But me?
All I can feel is doubt.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Confidence

“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher

People, Age, Idea, Problem

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

Happiness, Sadness, Way, Memory

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”

Alain de Botton book Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

Love

“… Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Life, World, Learning, Chance

“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Life, Sadness, Personality

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

World

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Way

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Help

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Love, Home

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

Disappointment, Nature

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Strong

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Hate

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Love, Hope

“When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.”

Judith Lewis Herman (1942) American psychiatrist

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

People, Dead

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

Women, Men, Thinking

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

Question

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Loneliness

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: The Seventh Seal

World, Dreams, Heart, Indifference

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 11

Love, Happiness, Heart, Joy

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander

Death, Time, Joy, Cheating

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

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Quotes about feelings
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