Quotes about feelings
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“I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Nature

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Love, Happiness, Happy

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Time

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer

Happiness, Mountain, Learning

“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Religion, Freedom, Evil

“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

Justin Cronin book The Twelve

Bradford J. Wolgast
The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
Source: The Twelve

Memory, Parting, Personality

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

Scott Corbett (1913–2006) American children's writer

Life, People, Books, Chance

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Hurt, Relationship

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Understanding

“Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Way, Kiss

“people's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

People, Reading

“I feel infinite.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Night

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People, Age

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Hope, Thinking, Personality

“Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Personality

“Hannah leaned against the wall. 'Mind if I call shotgun?'

'Since you're carrying one? Feel free.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Thinking

“The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”

Monica Drake (1967) American writer

Source: Clown Girl

Soul, Heart

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

Men, Fear, Sleep

“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.”

Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz

Source: Suite Française

Money, People

“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”

Chuck Barris (1929–2017) American game show creator, producer, and host

Source: You and Me, Babe

Effort

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Night

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)

People, Envy

“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”

Maggie Shayne (1965) American writer

Source: Colder than Ice

Imagination

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Music, Dance

“Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Source: Invisible Man (1952)

Love, Parting

“My feelings for you run very deep." - Loor
Not deep enought, I guess." - Bobby
(The Rivers of Zadaa)”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

“I expect I shall feel better after tea.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves

Source: Carry on, Jeeves

Tea

“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Strong

“Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Life

“I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and
farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your
thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Cars, Perfection

“You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.”

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

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Youth, Soul

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Strong

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Home, Thinking, Time

“Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Dreams, Joy

““From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?” “Then,” said Yossarian, “I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?””

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

Smile, Fools, Way, Thinking

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Pain, Happiness, Peace, Heart

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

"Silence"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

Silence

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Music

“Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed.

Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

Sleep, Christ

“And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying.
But that wasn’t fair.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Lovers, Parting

“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Love, Happiness, Time, Heart

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Stupidity

“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur (1962)

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

Rita Mae Brown book Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

People, Way

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

Sense

“When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Truth, Courage

“Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Exercises, Thinking

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

Paula Poundstone (1959) American comedian

Death, Time

“Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Lie, Heart

“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”

Chris Crutcher (1946) American children's writer

Source: Stotan!

Life, Pain, Joy

“To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less… selfish.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

Reading, Selfishness

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Heart, Hurt

“He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.”

Lois Lowry (1937) American writer

Peace, Silence, Speed

“She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

Time

“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:

18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Housing

“There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.”

Margaret Atwood book Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Affliction, Personality

“And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Fear, Time

“If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Thinking

“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to be a victim.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love, World, Strong

“… if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Love, Life

“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn't just an idea.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Death, Idea

“She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Life

“Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Life

“Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Girl, Star

“What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Life

“I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Time

“I am a rock.
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)
Source: Lyrics 1964-2008
Context: I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock.
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries.

Pain

“I hate people forcing me to talk about my feelings,” said Alec.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Hate, People

“Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house… "
- Shigure Sohma”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

World, Housing

“But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Reality, Help

“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

People

“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Life, Sense, Parting

“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Hope

“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Love, Fear

“What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Question

“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, Light, Heart

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Future

“When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”

John Osborne (1929–1994) English playwright

Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html <br class="br">Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)

Dogs, Thinking

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Way, Selfishness