“I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
The Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press (2001) ISBN 978-0804738903
Wonder Boys (1995)
“I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
The Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press (2001) ISBN 978-0804738903
Tom Watson (Labour politician) (1967) British politician
Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45495384 BBC News (13 September 2018) <br class="br">2018
“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”
Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) American Physicist
On events after the end of World War II, Part I, Holland, p. 53
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: For several months I was incapable of feeling anything, completely inaccessible to my feelings — I did not laugh, I did not cry. The second thing was this amazing trauma, where I forgot the names of everyone I knew. That was very strange. I knew who everyone was: this was a friend from high school, this was my cousin, but I had to relearn every name. It was quite striking, that very strong reaction that I had. They have a name for it, I think: posttraumatic stress syndrome.
I don't sit here conquering great resistance to talk. It is not my way. I don't suffer the reliving of these memories with tremendous pain. It's very odd, but it's finished for me. That, of course, is never quite true. It isn't finished. I am like all of my generation; we are marked people. But I don't suffer; I can talk to you about it. Most of my family was killed. All of my father's and mother's sisters and brothers and their children, my sister and my old grandfather, they're all gone. Four out of five Jews in Holland never came back after the war — 80 percent.
Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 2 “Facing the Ultimate Archenemy” (p. 51)
“I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
7 Questions with Joe Strummer (15 August 2001)
“I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.”
Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries
Source: Gut Symmetries
