Feelings Quotes

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

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.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

Music is what feelings sound like out loud.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.

I remember feeling, 'If you do not leave now, you won't leave with your soul intact.'

I think that's somewhat of what the left is feeling now - that maybe I'm alone, and they're not. There are millions of us on the right that feel the same way.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good