Quotes About Feelings

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

For a moment Anne´s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert´s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities.

They smiled at the good, and frowned at the bad, and sometimes they were very sad.

What is internal is hidden from us. The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when he calculates an eclipse of the sun? If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me.

Men—do you understand?—have need of building a house even for their sentiments. It is not enough for them to have those sentiments within them, in their hearts; they want to see them outside, as well, so that they can touch them; and so, they proceed to build them a house.

How easy it is to feel paralyzed by obligations. How easy it is to feel lost and insignificant and unable to know what is best, to feel adrift while yearning for purpose.

And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.

In the days of Rohbeson's Slaughterhouse, flies were everywhere, crawling up the walls like living designs. I used to fall asleep looking at them. Thinking about their world. Their society. Did they have kings? Did they steal from each other? My light fixture was black-full with bodies of them. I used to think they had feelings about certain people. People who noticed them. Certain people. Me.

Every heart, it have its own ache.

It doesn't have to be logical, it doesn't have to be love in the usual sense. It doesn't even have to be long lasting. Usually it isn't. But whatever it is, it is real and powerful while it lasts, and there's no point denying it.

Even if words could reach to eternity there would not be enough to express the way I feel about you.

The human heart is big enough to love more than one in a lifetime.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

People who neglect their children in the grossest of ways more often than not will consider themselves the most loving of parents. It is clear that there may be a self-serving quality in this tendency to confuse love with the feelings of love; it is easy and not at all unpleasant to find evidence of love in one's feelings. It may be difficult and painful to search for evidence of love in one's actions.

genuine love transcends the matter of cathexes. When love exists it does so with or without cathexis and with or without a loving feeling.

it is easy and not at all unpleasant to find evidence of love in one's feelings. It may be difficult and painful to search for evidence of love in one's actions.

Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.

As you shrink back inside your body, your childhood fears flicker through your mind. All the feelings you've felt in the past have been sheltering inside your flesh.

Os olhos continuaram a dizer coisas infinitas, as palavras de boca é que nem tentavam sair, tornavam ao coração caladas como vinham...

a língua humana há de ser sempre impotente para exprimir certos afetos da alma (...). Estou condenado a não dizer nada ou a dizer mal. (A mulher de preto)

Não se navegam corações como os outros mares deste mundo.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.