Quotes About Feelings

As I entered a home to make a pastoral visit, the person I came to see was sitting at a window embroidering a piece of cloth held taut on an oval hoop. She said, "Pastor, while waiting for you to come I realized what's wrong with me—I don't have a frame. My feelings, my thoughts, my activities—everything is loose and sloppy. There is no border to my life. I never know where I am. I need a frame for my life like this one I have for my embroidery.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Given the fact that intuitions are charged with feelings but aren't emotionally-charged, a vital skill is to be able to disentangle intuition's subtle feelings from intense emotional feelings and the attachment and cravings that strong emotions bring.

Isn't hate—twisted love?

but what is vibrato if not a breaking down of the rigid divisions between pitches, a temporary ending of our sundered musical segmentation; we evoke the deepest and richest of our feelings by bending tones between the line spectrum of the Western scale, by ending its divisiveness; we locate what is most human in between, where we are no longer quantized, constrained...

for I have read about oceanic feelings, but I know about dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean... and I have heard about the thousand points of light, but I have seen that they provide no warmth, no canopying glow ...

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

Years ago, when I was in school, I used to like a girl. But I didn't know if she liked me since I was something of a geek too. So, my feelings remained locked inside my heart.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig and I want to create that atmosphere for people.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

When humans are hungry, they look for food. But they are also hungry for certain feelings. They go out to look for entertainment - from music to movies to novels to games - to satisfy their emotions.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

In Hollywood, they don't care about hurting anyone's feelings.