Quotes About Feelings

Hatred is the feeling created to protect love.

When we're talking about honesty, it's important to be honest with yourself about your feelings and emotions. If

One of the best ways to tell a story is to add emotion to it.  I must admit that it's generally easier for women to do this than men. But

That also goes to being honest with yourself and your emotions.

Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past. A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar. Falstaff's bombast, Iago's cunning, Leontes's jealousy, Rosalind's strength, and Malvolio's embarrassment have not changed in four hundred years. Shakespeare was writing about the same human nature that we know today. Only

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?

I want to touch her, but I can't, because I'm angry at her and she's angry with me, and even though I love her, I don't like her as much as I should.

These tears were difficult: they didn't want to come out and they didn't want to stay in.

The difference is that whereas hey defer to common sense, empathy, and decency in the case of human consciousness, in the case of animals they do the opposite. The creatures are held to an impossible standard of evidence, an ever receding empirical horizon, allowing us to declare in theory that since we can never really know how they think and feel, we may safely conclude that they do not and act accordingly.

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies. pg. xvi

I had always liked him, but it never occurred to me to like him, like him.

Stevie had often wondered how these conversations worked, when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary. Now someone wanted in, to take the lids off the vials, to peer at the contents. Stevie was unaware that people were even allowed to talk about emotions this frankly. This was not how things happened at home.

He was paying attention. It felt foreign, a little embarrassingly intimate, but kind of great. My eyes filled up.

There was the thing about romantic feelings- the sensation was incredible, like a warm flood through every highway and byway of her body. Every good chemical she could produce turned up, like some bountiful harvest. But the feelings and chemicals blocked out everything else. They dulled logic and sense and focus. They made everything else seem irrelevant and time started to move jerkily too fast, then too slow

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

Who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences.

when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary.

No, Jim,' she said quietly, 'I guess I've never felt anything at all.

The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: "What do I know?" and "How do I know it?" In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: "What do I feel?" and "Why do I feel it?" Most

Cuando alguien acusa a otro de no tener sentimientos, ello significa que tal persona es justa. Que se trata de un ser cuyas emociones nunca carecen de base, de alguien que nunca otorgará sentimientos que el otro no merezca. Significa que sentir es ir contra la razón, contra los valores morales y contra la realidad.

Lo que uno siente hacia los muertos, pensó, se basa siempre en la imposibilidad de toda acción.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

A man's method of using his consciousness determines his method of survival. The three contestants are Attila, the Witch Doctor and the Producer—or the man of force, the man of feelings, the man of reason—or the brute, the mystic, the thinker. The rest of mankind calls it expedient to be tossed by the current of events from one of those roles to another, not choosing to identify the fact that those three are the source which determines the current's direction.

Aborrecía los afectos sin causa, tal como aborrecía la riqueza inmerecida.