Quotes About Feelings

feelings, so that I suffered less guilt, remorse, shame, anger, envy, boredom, and irritation. Also easy to understand.

Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

The most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest phrases, since no one can ever express the exact measure of his needs, his conceptions or his sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked pot on which we beat out rhythms for bears to dance to when we are striving to make music that will wring tears from the stars

Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.

Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.

He had heard these things said to him so often that for him there was nothing original about them. Emma was like any other of his mistresses, and the charm of novelty slipping off gradually like a peace of clothing revealed in his nakedness the eternal monotony of passion which always assumes the same form and uses the same languages. He could not perceive, this man of such broad experiences, the difference in feelings that might underlay similarities of expression.

one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us

Ce qu'il ne comprenait pas, c'était tout ce trouble dans une chose aussi simple que l'amour.

Het was een van die zuivere gevoelens die het normale leven niet verstoren, die men koestert omdat ze zeldzaam zijn en waarvan het verlies dieper zou kwetsen dan dat het bezit voldoening schenkt.

The more flowery a person's speech … the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.

las palabras exageradas que ocultaban medianas afecciones

Het woord is trouwens net een mangel die gevoelens gladstrijkt.

Era uno de esos sentimientos puros que en nada obstaculizan el disfrute de la existencia, que se fomentan porque son raros y cuya pérdida resultaría más triste que gozosa fuera su posesión.

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La parole est un laminoir qui allonge toujours les sentiments

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

Era uno de esos sentimientos puros que no estorban el ejercicio de la vida, que se cultivan porque son raros y cuya pérdida afligiría más de lo que alegraría su posesión.

Mora da osje?aji imaju malo rije?i kojima mogu da se služe.

Dits par l'autre tout à l'heure ils l'irritaient et l'écoeuraient. Car les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent les goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?