Quotes About Feelings

Bueno, siempre labios que dicen lo que el corazón no siente

I do believe that disgust makes me sicker than hatred.

cómo cree que en política haya asesinatos? En política, querido mío, y vos lo sabéis tan bien como yo, no hay hombres, sino ideas; no sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino se allana un obstáculo.

And now," said the unknown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

Mijn jongen, je weet net zo goed als ik dat er in de politiek geen mensen bestaan, maar principes. Geen gevoelens, maar belangen. In de politiek ruim je geen mens op, je ruimt een hinderpaal uit de weg, punt.

L'amour est la plus égoïste de toutes les passions.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

there was a distance between us. Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a forever he would choose this very moment. The black night, the few yellow leaves still clinging to the bare trees, the beautiful dark-eyed woman drinking whiskey, the way she gazed at him, the way she made him feel.

Somehow, I knew how alone he felt, and it gave me shivers to think that alienation could be a shared experience.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

All joy was thin ice to Sister Lucy.

A system of morality tells us what to do and what not to do, but it cannot tell us what we should feel. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

After all, it is quite normal for us to owe a debt of gratitude to our parents and grandparents (or the people standing in for them), even if the treatment we experienced at their hands was sheer unadulterated torture. This is an integral part of morality, as we understand it. But it is a species of morality that consigns our genuine feelings and our own personal truth to an unmarked grave.

She needs a constant thrill to keep boredom at bay; not even one moment of quiet can be permitted during which the burning loneliness of her childhood experience might be felt, for she fears that feeling more than death. She will continue in her flight unless she learns that the awareness of old feelings is not deadly but liberating.

she belittles her feelings to protect herself, and either does not become aware of them at all, or does so only several days after they have already passed.