Quotes about feel
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“Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

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“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Selected Letters

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“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

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“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
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“I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real”

Variant: I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.
Source: House of Leaves

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“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

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“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

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“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Sandman Slim

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“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon

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“I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind: I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Variant: Our love is like the wind... I cant see it, but I sure can feel it.
Source: A Walk to Remember

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“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Cordelia's Honor (1996), "Author's Afterword"

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“I feel strangely normal.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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“Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: Insecure at Last

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“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

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“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
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“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”

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

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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“Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Home to Summer Island

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“We’ll make out for a while and you’ll feel better.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Harvest Moon

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