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Quotes About Feelings

Breathing mindfully, you are already finding a refuge in your breath, and you become aware of what's going on in your body, your feelings, your perceptions, your mental formations, and your consciousness. In Buddhism, these are known as the five skandhas ("aggregates"), or elements, that make up what we call a person.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.
~ Thomas de Quincey
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
~ Thomas Hardy
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
~ Thomas Hardy
Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
~ Thomas Hardy
Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales——Full of sound and fury —signifying nothing—he said no word at all.
~ Thomas Hardy
there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.
~ Thomas Hardy
Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.
~ Thomas Hardy
An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
~ Thomas Hardy
The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
~ Thomas Hardy
Our moods meet in the wrong places.
~ Thomas Hardy
Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in smiles. Not the lovers who part in passion, but the lovers who part in friendship, are those who most frequently part forever.
~ Thomas Hardy
New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.
~ Thomas Hardy
Es muy difícil para una mujer expresar sus sentimientos en un lenguaje que, principalmente, sirve para que los hombres expresen los suyos.
~ Thomas Hardy
he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon...
~ Thomas Hardy
is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~ Thomas Hardy
But loving is not done by months, or method, or rule, or nobody would ever have invented such a phrase as falling in love.
~ Thomas Hardy
Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during
~ Thomas Hardy
His had been a love 'which alters when it alteration finds.
~ Thomas Hardy
Es difícil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos.
~ Thomas Hardy
think it with all your heart, said he. It is a pleasant thought, and costs nothing.
~ Thomas Hardy
He seemed to feel exactly as she felt about life and its surroundings - that they were a tragical rather than a comical thing; that though one could be gay on occasion, moments of gaiety were interludes, and no part of the actual drama.
~ Thomas Hardy
Tess Durberyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience
~ Thomas Hardy
shaping such sad imaginings. She was expressing in her own native phrases… feelings which might almost have been called those of the age – the ache of modernism
~ Thomas Hardy