Quotes about feelings
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“Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Happiness, Thinking

“If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”

William James Is Life Worth Living?

"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Life, Game, Universe, Success

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Personality, Loneliness

“… I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread…”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Life

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

World

“You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

People, World, Way

“As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Love, Life, People, Heart

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Time, Hurt

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Women, Men, Night

“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Women, Way, Thinking, Change

“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

People, Imagination

“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Corelli's Mandolin

Women

“Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Stupidity, Smile, Sun

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

Change

“Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Revenge

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Source: Lectures on Philosophy

Understanding, Personality

“Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.”

Marie Jenney Howe (1870–1934) American writer

Source: An Anti-Suffrage Monologue

Women, Men, God

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him… or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Love, Life

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Books, Thinking, Reading

“You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”

François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness

Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

Happiness, Happy, Relationship, Cute

“… how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?”

Katherine Hannigan (1962) American artist and novelist

Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Sadness, Parting

“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Age, Falseness

“I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Time

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Lie, Waiting

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

Richard Dawkins book The Magic of Reality

Source: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Universe, Chance, Hurt, Personality

“It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Personality

“I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: Twisted

Stupidity

“How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Love

“It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Beauty

“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Age, Nature

“Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Time

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

Children, People

“I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Love, Change

“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

God, Forgiveness

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Source: Goodnight, Beautiful

Pain, Soul, Time, Waiting

“She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

“He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

Life, World, Beauty

“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Happiness

“I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

Jealousy, Cars, Rage

“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”

Kathy Reichs book Déjà Dead

Source: Déjà Dead

Home

“You're the only man I know who can have sex with a woman who looks that good and be in this bad a mood ten minutes later. Damn, didn't you know sex is supposed to make you feel better? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Sex, Mood

“The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Problem

“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick…”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Book of Shadows

Love, Lovers, Tree

“Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.”
If only she knew.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Truth

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

Raymond Carver book A New Path to the Waterfall

Source: A New Path to the Waterfall

Life

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Change, Painting

“Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being”

Robert Greene book The Art of Seduction

Source: The Art of Seduction

Love, Religion, Universe, Animals

“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

Princess, Selfishness

“Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it’s impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Heart, Parting

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all.

In no time, what I wished for, I became.”

Alice Hoffman book Green Angel

Source: Green Angel

Time, Cry

“I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

Imagination

“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Forgetting

“Love is such a magic thing. It can make you feel like your floating in the clouds without a trouble in the world.”

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924–2008) American writer

Source: Mandie and the Courtroom Battle

Love, World

“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love, People, Time

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

Silence, Forgetting

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.

Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

World

“But as I guided her to my belt and then laid her down on the bed, I knew which way our path would go. Webe together forever. We had to be. There was no way that all these feelings between us could ever dim or be defeated.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Way

“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Truth, Learning, Personality

“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Love, Parting

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Love, Life, People, Heart Touching

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn’t, adjust your position until it does.”

Amy Lane

Under the Rushes

“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Thinking, Time

“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”

Elise Broach (1963) American writer

Source: Shakespeare's Secret

Home, Moms

“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”

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

Reality, Selfishness

“I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Time

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Hope, Music, Way, Time

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Home

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Love, Making love, Learning

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Source: Shampoo Planet

Life, Time

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Home

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

People

“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life, Sister

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Suffering, Past

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Way, Joy, Hurt

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Change, Help

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Perfection

“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961)

Horse

“All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Color, Soul, Sense, Light

“I have the feeling I’ve been—
unpleasant.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Freedom, Water

“Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

“One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Stupidity

“If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Training

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Life, Laughter, Time

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”

Elise Broach (1963) American writer

Source: Shakespeare's Secret

People, Help

“What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Time

“He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.”

Morgan Llywelyn book Lion of Ireland

Source: Lion of Ireland

“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Life, Time

“I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."

I feel so wanted. Thanks.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God

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Quotes about feelings
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