Quotes about feel
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Virginia Woolf photo
Sarah Waters photo
Frida Kahlo photo

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

Variant: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me.

George Bernard Shaw photo

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author

Source: Diane Arbus: Revelations

Jimmy Carter photo

“A visiting pastor at our church in Plains once told a story about a priest from New Orleans. Father Flanagan’s parish lay in the central part of the city, close to many taverns. One night he was walking down the street and saw a drunk thrown out of a pub. The man landed in the gutter, and Father Flanagan quickly recognized him as one of his parishioners, a fellow named Mike. Father Flanagan shook the dazed man and said, “Mike!” Mike opened his eyes and Father Flanagan said, “You’re in trouble. If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me what it is.ℍ “Well, Father,” Mike replied, “I hope you’ll pray for me.” “Yes,” the priest answered, “I’ll pray for you right now.” He knelt down in the gutter and prayed, “Father, please have mercy on this drunken man.ℍ At this, a startled Mike woke up fully and said, “Father, please don’t tell God I’m drunk.ℍ Sometimes we don’t feel much of a personal relationship between God and ourselves, as though we have a secret life full of failures and sins that God knows nothing about. We want to involve God only when we plan to give thanks or when we’re in trouble and need help. But the rest of our lives, we’d rather keep to ourselves.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Oscar Wilde photo
David Lynch photo
Jim Butcher photo
Terry Pratchett photo
Winston S. Churchill photo

“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In "Painting as a Pastime", first published in the Strand Magazine in two parts (December 1921/January 1922), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 456 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)

Diana Gabaldon photo
Abraham Lincoln photo
Rabindranath Tagore photo

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

Marilyn Monroe photo
Sylvia Plath photo
Virginia Woolf photo
John Lennon photo

“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 171

Sylvia Plath photo

“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

John Lennon photo
Margaret Fuller photo
Anne Frank photo

“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Vladimir Nabokov photo
Emil M. Cioran photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Source: The Anti-Christ

Holly Black photo
John Keats photo

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Alice Sebold photo
Lawrence Ferlinghetti photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Pablo Picasso photo
Angelina Jolie photo

“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Michael J. Fox photo
Terry Pratchett photo
Rick Riordan photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Erich Maria Remarque photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Source: The Gay Science

Virginia Woolf photo
Jeremy Bentham photo

“Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.”

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer

Source: The Panopticon Writings

Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Kathrine Switzer photo

“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”

Kathrine Switzer (1947) American distance runner

Source: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

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Stephen King photo
Primo Levi photo
Daniel Goleman photo

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995), p. 8

Sylvia Plath photo

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

Oscar Wilde photo
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Oscar Wilde photo
Nora Roberts photo
Jim Morrison photo
Immanuel Kant photo
Michael Parenti photo

“You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.”

Michael Parenti (1933) American academic

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

Eckhart Tolle photo
Jenny Han photo
C.G. Jung photo

“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Jerry Spinelli photo
Joel Osteen photo

“You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Theodore Roosevelt photo
Mark Twain photo

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Oscar Wilde photo
John Wayne photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Terry Pratchett photo
George Eliot photo
Abraham Lincoln photo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo
Ivo Andrič photo
C.G. Jung photo
Ludwig Wittgenstein photo
Daniel Handler photo
Maria Montessori photo

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

Attributed in Words of Wisdom (1990), edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, p. 58

Rick Riordan photo
Jean Jacques Rousseau photo
Joel Osteen photo

“Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. photo

“Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Bertrand Russell photo

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, pp. 4–5
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Context: Consider MacArthur and his Republican supporters. So limited is his intelligence and his imagination that he is never puzzled for one moment. All we have to do is to go back to the days of the Opium War. After we have killed a sufficient number of millions of Chinese, the survivors among them will perceive our moral superiority and hail MacArthur as a saviour. But let us not be one-sided. Stalin, I should say, is equally simple- minded and equally out of date. He, too, believes that if his armies could occupy Britain and reduce us all to the economic level of Soviet peasants and the political level of convicts, we should hail him as a great deliverer and bless the day when we were freed from the shackles of democracy. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.