Quotes about feelings
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Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Wording in Ideas and Opinions: It is therefore easy to see why the churches have always fought science and persecuted its devotees. On the other hand, I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. What a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to understand, were it but a feeble reflection of the mind revealed in this world, Kepler and Newton must have had to enable them to spend years of solitary labor in disentangling the principles of celestial mechanics! Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.
1930s, Religion and Science (1930)
Variant: I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Source: The World As I See It
Context: It is, therefore, quite natural that the churches have always fought against science and have persecuted its supporters. But, on the other hand, I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research. No one who does not appreciate the terrific exertions, and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer creations in scientific thought cannot come into being, can judge the strength of the feeling out of which alone such work, turned away as it is from immediate practical life, can grow. What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work! Any one who only knows scientific research in its practical applications may easily come to a wrong interpretation of the state of mind of the men who, surrounded by skeptical contemporaries, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered over all countries in all centuries. Only those who have dedicated their lives to similar ends can have a living conception of the inspiration which gave these men the power to remain loyal to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is the cosmic religious sense which grants this power. A contemporary has rightly said that the only deeply religious people of our largely materialistic age are the earnest men of research.
“But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Variant: They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: The Eyes of the Dragon
“Self-respect — The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.”
Source: Forever Princess
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”
Source: Sing You Home
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”
Excerpts from the two paragraphs above have sometimes been quoted in abbreviated form: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
“At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Source: Under the Tuscan Sun
“n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: Saving Francesca
“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)”
Variant: If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
Source: Freedom from Fear
“A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”
“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
Source: The Book Thief
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”
“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”
Source: Gift from the Sea
“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Variant: Live, laugh, love.
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
Source: The Way of Kings
Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/
1876 - 1895
Variant: Rose. Please stop. Please stay away."
[... ]
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
Source: Spirit Bound
Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Context: Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Source: It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart
Source: Shadow Kiss
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
Source: Sirena
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: The Haunting of Hill House