Quotes about feelings
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William James photo
Deb Caletti photo

“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

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Gabrielle Zevin photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Diana Gabaldon photo
Dorothy L. Sayers photo
Louis De Bernières photo

“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Corelli's Mandolin

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Robin Hobb photo
Mindy Kaling photo
Simone Weil photo
Marie Jenney Howe photo

“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

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Jane Austen photo
François Lelord photo

“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”

Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

“… 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

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Rick Riordan photo
Richard Dawkins photo
John Boyne photo

“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

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Rick Riordan photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Flannery O’Connor photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Dorothy Koomson photo
Alice Hoffman photo
Shannon Hale photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Jim Butcher photo
Kathy Reichs photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Christopher Moore photo
James Patterson photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Raymond Carver photo
Leo Buscaglia photo
Robert Greene photo
Margaret Atwood photo

“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

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P.G. Wodehouse photo
Ray Bradbury photo

“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

Gabriel García Márquez photo
Jean Paul Sartre photo

“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

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Richelle Mead photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Ann Brashares photo
Kate DiCamillo photo

“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

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Haruki Murakami photo
Groucho Marx photo
James Frey photo
Jenny Han photo
Nick Hornby photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Norman Mailer photo
Douglas Coupland photo
Deb Caletti photo
Mitch Albom photo
William James photo
Ann Brashares photo
Sue Monk Kidd photo
Junot Díaz photo
Henry Rollins photo
William Faulkner photo

“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)

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

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Ann Brashares photo
Chuck Klosterman photo
Kelley Armstrong photo
Alyson Nöel photo
Markus Zusak photo
Franz Kafka photo
Rick Riordan photo