Quotes About Feelings

We stood in silence, and then the long-haired man repeated, "You are in pain. Do you know why?" "No, why?" I asked, even though I certainly did know why. "Because you are afraid." "Afraid of what?" "Afraid of yourself," the man said, placing his hand on his chest and patting his heart. "You are afraid to feel your real feelings. You are afraid to want what you really want. What do you want?

While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real

Silence will put us in touch with yearnings, anxieties, pain, despair, envy, competition, and a host of other feelings that need to be put into words if we are to move toward a place of centeredness and come into possession of our lives. The fact is that most of us have an incredible amount of unfaced suffering in our histories that has to be looked at and worked through.

Love doesn't always make sense...or happen the way you expect.

I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.

Stop it! Tell me how it's really been! He sat back, pushed his glass forward. It's just the way it was, that's all. People either didn't know how they felt about something or they chose never to say how they really felt about something.

Não gostava de estar sozinha. Mas gostava ainda menos de estar com gente.

She did not say, and only fleetingly did she think: And you have always taken up so much space in my heart that it has sometimes felt to be a burden.)

People either didn't know how they felt about something or they chose never to say how they really felt about something.

She spoke mostly of her work with the ACLU, and I thought: She is not talking about anything real. And I think by that I mean that she was not talking about how she felt

Grown men with hurt feelings are transparent creatures; grown men who feel dimly they have done something wrong are positively opaque.

William had felt alone in the world. And now he had a sister. Inside myself I wept. From happiness and sadness both.

Everything felt a little bit far away, is what I mean, like I was removed from it. And that night in the hotel I did not give myself as freely to my husband as I usually did, the feeling I had was still with me. The truth is this: That feeling never went away. Not entirely. I had it my whole marriage with him—it ebbed and flowed—but it was a terrible thing.

other. And because she had, ever since then, been weeping from a private faucet inside her, unable to keep

they chose never to say how they really felt about something.

The sadness that rose and fell in me was like the tides.

Singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again.

Keeping feelings inside eventually will take its toll on one's health. Repression is a constant force that wears the system down, resulting in, possibly, a shorter life span.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more and not merely to spend our feelings.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.