“the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)”
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American writer 1931–2019Related quotes

“It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.”
Part Seven “The Demagogue”, Chapter vi “Hello, Stranger”, Section 2 (p. 306)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE

“We think too much and feel too little.”

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Source: Midnight Bayou

“I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.”
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
A comment regarding her divorce from Sinclair Lewis, quoted by Vincent Sheean in Dorothy and Red (1963)

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice