Quotes About Feelings

Of course he had been loving Gerald all along, and all along denying it.

Bolshevism, it seems to me,' said Charlie, 'is just a superlative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn't quite defined. It is Capitalism, among other things. Feelings and emotions are also so decidedly bourgeois that you have to invent a man without them.

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

Well, we've been waiting for years...we wait longer. Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas on to life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. We drive ourselves with a formula, like a machine.

Was it actually her destiny to go on weaving herself into his life all the rest of her life? Nothing else? Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional lower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word?

You say, Don't you bother about me, and then all the while you feel injured because nobody thinks of you.

He doesn't have feelings, he only has streams of words about feelings. I'm tired of self-important mentalities.

My feelings for you run very deep. - Loor Not deep enought, I guess. - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

you will not alter their opinions, for you have hurt their feelings.

we cannot instantly change our emotions just by "making up our minds to" but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

She paused, cleared her throat twice, and I suddenly realized she was crying. If you want to love someone, then go right ahead. I know what love feel like; you didn't invent love. But the Lord Almighty doesn't give out promises just because you love someone. Love only gets you so far.

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person, My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty. The essence of a computer screen is to interface with a human. The essence of a unicycle is to be ridden in a circus. As for toys, their purpose is to be played with by kids, and thus their existential fear is of being discarded or upstaged by newer toys.

When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

La música, la naturaleza y Dios se entrelazaron en él formando un conjunto de sentimientos, una unidad moral, cuyo rastro jamás se desvanecería».

frequented many parlors of the mind. But he shied away from the inner chambers of the heart.

Do not be seduced by feelings that a dictatorship of the proletariat is temporarily needed

A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.

The Scotch, it is well known, are more remarkable for the exercise of their intellectual powers, than for the keenness of their feelings ; they are, therefore, more moved by logic than by rhetoric, and more attracted by acute and argumentative reasoning on doctrinal points, than influenced by the enthusiastic appeals to the heart and to the passions, by which popular preachers in other countries win the favour of their hearers.