Quotes About Feelings

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.

Emoções não expressadas jamais morrem. Elas são enterradas vivas e voltarão mais tarde, mais feias.

nadie es responsable de sus sentimientos y que su conducta y la enfermedad contraída bajo el peso de tales circunstancias constituían un alto testimonio de su moralidad.

I cannot discover this oceanic feeling in myself. It is not easy to deal scientifically with feelings

We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.

A pause here to confess, not without shame: I never heard the news that you'd fallen in love without experiencing a pang, nor could I suppress a surge of joy each time I heard that you were breaking up with someone.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. She wondered: Had she turned cowardly? She had never felt this way before.

Terror does things to you. It hardens a part of you. I have heard people call others hard-hearted, but it's not your heart that turns to stone when something awful happens. It's your gut, where all real feelings come from. That was froze up inside me and I didn't long to thaw it.

Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

I tried to love you less.I couldn't.

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

No descubrí la negra magia de las palabras hasta que me mordieron en el corazón.

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational : each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings.

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;

Sadness can be wept away. But the impatience of delight---it is not so easy to get rid of that.

La tristeza puede llorarse. Pero la impaciencia de la alegría no es fácil de conjurar.

I weep, therefore I love

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational: each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings. I can understand all last wishes and the total absence of them: the hugging of the bones or the abandonment of the body of the one you love to the common grave.

Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings.

God alone is capable of loving God. We can only consent to give up our own feelings so as to allow free passage in our soul for this love. That is the meaning of denying oneself. We are created for this consent, and for this alone.

Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.