Quotes about feel
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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

Source: Anna Karenina

“… Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Life, World, Feeling, Learning

“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Life, Sadness, Feeling, Personality

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

World, Feeling

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Way, Feeling

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Feeling, Help

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Feeling

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Love, Feeling, Home

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

Disappointment, Feeling, Nature

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Feeling, Strong

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Hate, Feeling

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Love, Hope, Feeling

“When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.”

Judith Lewis Herman (1942) American psychiatrist

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

People, Feeling, Dead

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Feeling

“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

Women, Men, Feeling, Thinking

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

Feeling, Question

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Feeling, Loneliness

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: The Seventh Seal

World, Dreams, Feeling, Heart

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 11

Love, Happiness, Feeling, Heart

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander

Death, Feeling, Time, Joy

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Feeling

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Feeling

“Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

People, Feeling

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap. It cheapens the giver and the recipient.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Guy, Feeling, Girl

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Feeling, Strong

“I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Feeling, Imagination

“If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life, Sadness, Feeling

“Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer book Bumi Manusia

Source: Bumi Manusia

People, Feeling

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Life, Books, Feeling

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Happiness, Feeling

“People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

People, Feeling, Selfishness

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Feeling, Past, Animals

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Life, Feeling, Silence

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

Luanne Rice (1955) American author

Source: Follow the Stars Home

Love, Feeling, Thinking

“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

Feeling, Sincerity

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Life, Feeling

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”

Tim Daly (1956) American actor, director and producer

Feeling

“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”

Louise Penny (1958) Canadian woman writer

Source: A Rule Against Murder

Feeling, Confidence, Idea, Silence

“Hey, for a scythe, cookies, and a chance to commit murder, Kronos could hide his true feelings.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Feeling, Chance

“How do you feel?" he asked him.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Feeling

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Feeling

“I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Feeling, Change

“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Feeling

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Love, Feeling, Personality

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Men, Feeling

“The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Way, Feeling, Thinking

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Life, World, Feeling, Drawing

“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

World, Feeling, Reality

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

People, Feeling

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Pain, Feeling

“I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

People, Feeling, Thinking, Time

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Feeling

“For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Summer Secrets

Feeling

“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Sadness, Feeling, Night, Sad

“I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”

Beth Gutcheon (1945) American writer

Source: More Than You Know

Feeling

“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

Feeling, Night

“I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.”

Frank Beddor American skier and writer

Feeling

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Feeling, Light, Strong

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Feeling, Joy

“It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.”

Harvey Pekar (1939–2010) writer

People, Feeling, Affliction

“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Feeling, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Feeling, Lovers, Thinking, Passion

“I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Feeling

“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

God, Feeling, Learning, Waiting

“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Women, People, Feeling

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Feeling, Literature, Parting

“She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Feeling, Imagination, Parent, Reading

“But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Feeling

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Truth, Age, Feeling

“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”

Susan Orlean (1955) American journalist

Source: The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Feeling, Passion

“For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Context: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

God, Feeling, Light

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Source: Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 1.

Feeling