Quotes about feel
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“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”

Elizabeth Strout (1956) American writer

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

People, Way, Feeling, Thinking

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Love, Feeling

“Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Sadness, Feeling

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Women, Feeling

“You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

World, Feeling

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

Andre Agassi (1970) US tennis player

Feeling

“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Feeling, Time, Reading

“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

Feeling

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Feeling, Thinking

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Hate, Feeling

“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"My Credo", a speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932), as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin, p. 262.
1930s

Life, Truth, Justice, Beauty

“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”

Norah Vincent (1968) American journalist

Life, Feeling, Boy, Time

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Life, Feeling

“You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Love, Feeling

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

Love, Pleasure, Secret, Feeling

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad…”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Sadness, Smile, Cars

“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: The Best American Essays 2007

Stupidity, Feeling, Time, Help

“When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

World, Feeling

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Art, Feeling

“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Source: The Shadow of the Bear

School, Feeling, Boy, Future

“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

Feeling

“i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can’t be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Disappointment, Feeling

“No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!”

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer

Feeling, Imagination, Change

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Happiness, Feeling

“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Way, Feeling, Bird, Singing

“Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We’re angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.”

Greta Christina (1961) American activist

Source: Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless

Justice, Feeling, Motivation, Sense

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Life, Feeling, Imagination

“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Feeling, Heart, Dead

“I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Source: The Journals of Mary Shelley

Feeling, Personality

“Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.”

Eoin Colfer book Airman

Source: Airman

People, Feeling

“It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 482
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Feeling, Idea, Thinking

“If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Happiness, Smile, Feeling, Thinking

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Beauty, Feeling

“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Feeling

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

World, Feeling

“Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Love, Way, Feeling, Question

“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Women, Feeling, Learning

“We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Love, Fear, Dreams, Feeling

“And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Feeling, Personality

“whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

Hope, Feeling, Learning, Reading

“I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.”

Jude Watson book What I Saw and How I Lied

Source: What I Saw and How I Lied

Way, Feeling

“Expressing your feelings constantly is like pleading. It comes across as needy rather than dignified.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Feeling

“sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t
quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but
would sound foolish to anyone else.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Fear, Feeling

“She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Feeling

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”

Thrity Umrigar book The Space Between Us

Source: The Space Between Us

Beauty, Feeling, Sun

“I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Feeling, Hurt

“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency…”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Feeling, Sense

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

World, Feeling, Success, Heart

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

Life, Angels, Feeling, Spring

“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Safe Harbor

Feeling

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”

Thomas Middleton The Changeling

Source: The Changeling

Feeling

“Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Feeling

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning

Source: Saving Fish from Drowning

Feeling

“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Books, Feeling, Idea

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."

Feeling

“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”

Lauren Willig (1977) American author

Books, Feeling, History