Quotes about feel
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“When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.”
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.
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
Act III
Source: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
Source: Diane Arbus: Revelations
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
“I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”
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)
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941
“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 171
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
History and Utopia (1960)
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
Source: The Anti-Christ
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
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.
“I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking”
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
“… but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”
Source: Heartbeat
“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”
Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Source: The Gay Science
“Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.”
Source: The Panopticon Writings
“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”
Source: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995), p. 8
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”
Source: The Stars My Destination
Source: True Confessions
Source: Tales of Power
“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
Attributed in Words of Wisdom (1990), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 58
Source: Flowers for Algernon
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”
“Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”
Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
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.