Quotes about feelings
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“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.”

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

Nature

“Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

People, Dead

“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God (1994)

World, Way

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Smile

“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper

Way, Thinking, Effort

“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 94

Thinking

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Way

“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time…”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Time

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Heart

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Confidence

“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Life, Pain, Joy

“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Hurt, Cry

“Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won’t quit. I can’t remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that’s for sure.”

Fiona Wood (1958) British–Australian physician and plastic surgeon

Source: Six Impossible Things

Happiness, Smile, Light, Heart

“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed….”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Source: His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

Help, Fight

“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts

Love, Wolf

“Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah. No need, though. Just try and think of me as a normal guy
-William”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Pleasure

Guy, Thinking

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Future

“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Heart

“It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Lie, Communication

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Source: My Heart Laid Bare

Life, Heart

“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

Help, Perfection

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you."

So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?”

Carrie Vaughn (1973) American writer

Source: Kitty Takes a Holiday

“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Margarita"

Sadness, Way, Heart

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Love

“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Sleep, Time

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Thousand Cranes

Source: Thousand Cranes

Pain

“What am I supposed to do,
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that,
And there's no turning back.
I need time to move on,
I need love to feel strong.
Cause I've got time to think it through,
And maybe I'm too good for you!”

Cher (1946) American singer and actress

Love, Thinking, Strong, Time

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Love, People, Hell, Water

“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

Time

“That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Life

“Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.”

Nicole Krauss book Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don’t rhyme”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

“Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the
ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Thinking

“I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

People

“Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Life, Search

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Sadness, Personality, Patience, Sad

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”

Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014) American writer

Source: Slam!

Women, Waiting

“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

People, Problem

“How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Love, Time

“It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Universe

“He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace. When Nico realized it was Jason, he was disappointed. Then he felt angry with himself for feeling that way.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Disappointment, Way

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“I HIDE myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too—
And angels know the rest.

I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness…”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Angels, Flowers, Loneliness

“Don’t.” She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. “You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you’re never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

Way, Heart

“I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?”

Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) American photographer

Lovers, Teachers

“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Love, Silence, Time

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Laughter

“I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.”

Jonathan Ames (1964) American novelist, memoirist

Books, Way

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

“Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.”

Dick Francis book Dead Cert

Source: Dead Cert (1962)

Love, Learning, Time, Flying

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Source: In the Harbor

“Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

Bird, Loneliness

“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Love, Faith, Nature, Patience

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Sadness

“I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and… would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.”

Laurie R. King book The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Books, Lovers

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love

“I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Courage, Parent, Hurt

“I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Pain

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Beauty, Personality, Night

“Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all in all, I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

Richard Llewellyn book How Green Was My Valley

Source: How Green Was My Valley

Love, Books, Thinking

“I was their bar freak, they needed me
to make themselves feel
better.
just like, at times, I needed that
graveyard.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Time

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off…”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

Parent

“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(, interview with Budd Mishkin;, March 25, 2007.)”

David Halberstam (1934–2007) American writer, journalist, historian

Source: Everything They Had: Sports Writing

Love, Quotes

“It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Understanding, Training

“I don't forgive him," I said.
"Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?”

Kelley Armstrong book Frostbitten

Source: Frostbitten

Life, Forgiveness, Hell, Help

“I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Strong

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Heart

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Thinking

“Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Life, Books, Way, Heart

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hunger, Game, Flowers, Parting

“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”

François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness

Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

“It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn)
No, it doesn’t…(Stryker)
How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine? (Apollymi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

World

“5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13

“Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?"

-Royce Westmoreland”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Women, People, Home, Waiting

“I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Time

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Life, Suicide, Time

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kind of things.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

People, Way, Suffering

“I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Age, Sun

“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

Boy, Thinking, Time, Personality

“But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Sadness

“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Life, Lie, Freedom

“A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Hope

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Love, People, Way, Time

“Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Guardian Angel

Love, Understanding, Light

“I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Hidden Away

Sleep

“On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,
The feeling on me grows and grows
That hardly anybody knows
If those are these or these are those.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

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Quotes about feelings
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