Quotes about feelings
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“The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.”

James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Source: Sam's Letters to Jennifer

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

Home

“… Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar
That can be broken and again you feel
Grief as total as in its first hour.
-Elizabeth Jennings”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Time

“Coloured people don't like. Burn it. White people don't feel good about. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

People, Books

“I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot."
Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Way

“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Pain, Pleasure

“He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Kiss

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

World

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Learning, Waiting

“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”

Philip Plait (1964) astronomer, skeptic

Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

Life, Star, Time

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Life, Thinking

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Life, Pain, Hurt

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Wind in the Door

Source: A Wind in the Door

Love

“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

Courage, Evil

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Life, Music, Cute

“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Suffering

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Sadness

“when something is right, it will feel easier and much more effortless”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

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95 poems (1958)

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

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

Love, Fear, Sense

“What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

Agatha Christie book The Body in the Library

Source: The Body in the Library

Housing

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Variant: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Source: The End of the Affair

Marriage, Lovers, Sense

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks… I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: A Fatal Waltz

Time, Past

“How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

Hate, Fear

“Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories”

Jon Ronson (1967) British journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author

Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Memory

“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape---the lonliness of it---the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it---the whole story dosen't show.”

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) Realist painter

Winter, Waiting, Dead

“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly… glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“I know
the odds are all against me
and I know
you might not feel this way too
but I know
I would rather die trying
to know
if I could mean something to you”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Way

“You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.”

Francesca Lia Block Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

Source: Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

“… I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

People, Books, Joy

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

People, Art, Communication

“It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

Fear, Idea

“It's been going so well. We have a wonderful time in class, and I can feel the chemistry between you.

- That's because it's chemistry class.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Time

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Love, Understanding

“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it."
"And now you do?"
"And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Happiness, Time

“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Source: Johnny Cash Quotes

Time

“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

People, World, Hope

“How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump on this while you still feel… not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Hell, Hurt

“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”

Dodie Smith (1896–1990) English novelist and playwright

Source: The Town in Bloom

Age, World

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Love

“But listen to me when I say this. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Coffee, Teachers

“Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Love, Art

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”

Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

Suicide

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Love

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

Loung Ung (1970) American academic

Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

World, Beauty, Thinking, Joy

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: Flawed

Understanding

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Heart, Hurt

“Please feel free to take this personally.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Personality

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love, Life, Peace

“Such is human memory… you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Truth, Memory, Forgetting

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
Source: Every Day

“Being with you is the best thing that's ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I've made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I'd go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

Decision, Perfection

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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