Quotes about feelings
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“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Parent, Fight, For Parents

“My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

Life, Fate, Loss, Chance

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Cry

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

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

Youth, Dreams, Star

“Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Secret

“There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.”

Jimmy Buffett book A Salty Piece of Land

Source: A Salty Piece of Land

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”

George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor

Love

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories

People

“Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

Truth

“She was feeling her bohemian oats.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Art, Learning, Heart

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch

Love, Books, Football, Anger

“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Autumn, Light

“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Solitude

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

Patricia Briggs book Dead Heat

Source: Dead Heat

Children, People, Fear

“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

“The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Source: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

Hurt

“I will fight any battle for you, crush any adversity. Because you are mine, beautiful girl. I love you so madly that the past before you feels sane…”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Love, Beauty, Girl, Past

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Freedom

“There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

God, People

“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Sense, Universe

“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender

God, Error, Strong, Forgetting

“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Happiness, Personality

“Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Thinking

“I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.”

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

Life, Time

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”

Gordon Korman (1963) Canadian American children's writer

“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.”

Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory

Source: The Wasp Factory

People

“Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Awakening

“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) American author and screenwriter

Source: Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

“There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.”

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 Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

Guy, Heart

“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

Dreams, Time

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

Emily Post (1872–1960) American etiquette expert

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

Pain, Hurtful

“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 32

Truth, Sense

“The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Truth

“I don't like having feelings," _Eric Northman”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

Friendship, Soul

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

1880s, Speech on the Anniversary of Emancipation (1886)
Context: I admit the charge, but deny that nature, race, or color has anything to do with the fact. Any other race, with the same antecedents and the same conditions, would show a similar thieving propensity. The American people have this lesson to learn, that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property would be safe... While I hold now, as I held years ago, that the South is the natural home of the colored race, and that there must the destiny of that race be mainly worked out, I still believe that means can be and ought to be adopted, to assist in the emigration of such of their number as may wish to change their residence to parts of the country, where their civil and political rights are better protected than at present they can be at the South... The Republican party is not perfect; it is cautious even to the point of timidity; but it is the best friend we have.

Justice, Personality

“A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw… safety”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Flying

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Happiness, Way, Communication, Envy

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

People, Dreams

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Way

“I feel a sin coming on.”

Anne Taintor (1953) American artist

Source: I Can't Be Good All the Time: An Anne Taintor Collection

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

This I Believe (1951)
Context: I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality. I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger, the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, just as the plant struggling under a stone does not know its own condition. Only when the stone is removed can it spring up freely into the light. But the power to spring up is inherent, and only death puts an end to it. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Faith, Faith

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Wind in the Door

Source: A Wind in the Door

Love, Life, People

“I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Love, Way, Hell, Thinking

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Love, Valentine's Day

“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Books, Thinking, Reading, Fight

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Life, Pain, People, Way

“Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Love, Hurt

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

Danielle Steel Big Girl

Source: Big Girl

Love, People

“My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Behavior

“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“… painfully curious… about how it feels to fall.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.”

Mohsin Hamid book The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Guy

“Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Confidence

“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

Sadness, Betrayal, Joy

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

People, Idea, Learning