Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In "Painting as a Pastime", first published in the Strand Magazine in two parts (December 1921/January 1922), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 456 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941
“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 171
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
Judith Guest (1936) Novelist, screenwriter
“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: The Anti-Christ
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand (1942) American astrologer and writer
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
“I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“… but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”
Sharon Creech book Heartbeat
Source: Heartbeat
Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor
Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
“I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went”
William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
Source: The Winter's Tale
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes, in Book 1, Ch. 2
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: The Gay Science
“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”
Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.”
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
Source: The Panopticon Writings
“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”
Kathrine Switzer (1947) American distance runner
Source: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995), p. 8
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Source: Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 5
Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
Source: True Confessions
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: Tales of Power
“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”
Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Attributed in Words of Wisdom (1990), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 58
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”
Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist
“Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, pp. 4–5
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Context: Consider MacArthur and his Republican supporters. So limited is his intelligence and his imagination that he is never puzzled for one moment. All we have to do is to go back to the days of the Opium War. After we have killed a sufficient number of millions of Chinese, the survivors among them will perceive our moral superiority and hail MacArthur as a saviour. But let us not be one-sided. Stalin, I should say, is equally simple- minded and equally out of date. He, too, believes that if his armies could occupy Britain and reduce us all to the economic level of Soviet peasants and the political level of convicts, we should hail him as a great deliverer and bless the day when we were freed from the shackles of democracy. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930), https://books.google.com/books?id=rVERL_j9UfcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0809515679&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-beOVeGqHsi_ggT1vqKgCw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=insanity&f=true <br class="br">Non-Fiction, Letters, to Robert E. Howard <br class="br">Context: It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre 'kick', Here is the material for a really profound study in group neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.... The very pre-ponderance of passionately pious men in the colony was virtually an assurance of unnatural crime; insomuch as psychology now proves the religious instinct to be a form of transmuted eroticism precisely parallel to the transmutations in other directions which respectively produce such things as sadism, hallucination, melancholia, and other mental morbidities. Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. This was aggravated, of course, by the Puritan policy of rigorously suppressing all the natural outlets of excuberant feeling--music, laughter, colour, pageantry, and so on. To observe Christmas Day was once a prison offence....
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Speech to the Savage Club, 9 June 1899, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, pp. 277–278 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA277. (Possibly fabricated from a paraphrase in Aaron Watson, The Savage Club: a Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence (1907), pp. 126–129 http://books.google.com/books?id=B1cuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63)
“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value
