Quotes About Feelings

Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently.

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)

I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery, draws lines upon the smoothest brow, while it quickens the light of the eyes; it is a pursuit which is alternately bewildering, debasing, and exalting, and as Katherine speedily found, her discoveries gave her equal cause for surprise, shame, and intense anxiety.

it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings

I am rocked from side to side by the violence of my emotion.

The night and the stars, the dawn coming up, the barges swimming past, the sun setting.... Ah dear, she sighed, well, the sunset is very lovely too. I sometimes think that poetry isn't so much what we write as what we feel, Mr. Denham.

It seemed a mere toss-up whether she said, 'I love you,' or whether she said, 'I love the beech-trees,' or only 'I love—I love.

She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said. Alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it- it went on increasing in his experience.

it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

Suddenly, as if the movement of his hand had released it, the load of her accumulated impressions of him tilted up, and down poured in a ponderous avalanche all she felt about him.

she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing- room.