Quotes about feel
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Cecelia Ahern photo
Cornel West photo

“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

Cassandra Clare photo
Ann Brashares photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Edna St. Vincent Millay photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Jodi Picoult photo

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

Cassandra Clare photo
Neal Shusterman photo
Rick Riordan photo
Maya Angelou photo
Jenny Han photo
William Wordsworth photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Elie Wiesel photo
John C. Maxwell photo
John Wilmot photo
Emily Brontë photo
Augusten Burroughs photo
Sylvia Day photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Deb Caletti photo
Bob Dylan photo

“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Desire (1976), Hurricane

Stephen Chbosky photo
Vasily Grossman photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”

Eileen Wilks (1952) fiction writer

Source: On the Prowl

Tim McGraw photo
Helen Keller photo

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

Dan Brown photo

“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.

But no one does.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

John Milton photo
Karen Blixen photo
William Faulkner photo
Haruki Murakami photo
W. Clement Stone photo
Jenny Han photo
David Levithan photo
Kim Harrison photo
George Sand photo
A.A. Milne photo
Jhumpa Lahiri photo
John Grisham photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Rick Riordan photo
Eddie Izzard photo
Michael Ondaatje photo
Gillian Flynn photo
Denis Diderot photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Francis Fukuyama photo
Mindy Kaling photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“she slammed the door and
was gone.

I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Haruki Murakami photo
James Frey photo
Doris Lessing photo

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.”

Anna Wulf, in "The Golden Notebook"
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.
Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been. <!-- p. 585

Gary Shteyngart photo
Lev Grossman photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Roald Dahl photo
Zora Neale Hurston photo
Libba Bray photo
Jodi Picoult photo

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist

Source: Houses of Stone

David Levithan photo

“It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

David Allen photo

“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Jenny Han photo
Neal Shusterman photo
George Gordon Byron photo
Václav Havel photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Jennifer Egan photo
Marcus Aurelius photo

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome

Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage

Neal Shusterman photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Variant: I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
Source: The Complete Short Stories