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Quotes About Feelings

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.
~ Hector Berlioz
When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings.
~ Heda Margolius Kovaly
In the midst of such uncertainty, I cling not to what I know, but what I feel.
~ Heidi Julavits
Žmogus be li?desio nebe žmogus.
~ Heinrich Boll
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours. Flow forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond these mountains the dear one of my dreams!
~ Heinrich Heine
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine
I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.
~ Helen Garner
Whatever it was that possessed him, he wouldn't have said it was love for that was a word outside his vocabulary. He just felt what he felt and the wind seemed less bitter and the sun brighter because of it.
~ Helen Griffiths
I like the candor of dogs. They're always honest about what they're feeling.
~ Helen Humphreys
Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing.
~ Helen Humphreys
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
~ Helen Keller
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
~ Helen Keller
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
~ Helen Levitt
Do you think that maybe we're able to love someone best when that person doesn't know how we feel?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?" "No." "No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Suryaz and Deme would each need a talisman, an object that smelt lovely, or that felt kind to the hand; such things are little suitcases to put sad feelings in so that they can go away by themselves.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I was the "feelings" child. Everything I did was a feeling, and it did not count. It is so difficult to talk about demons and gods and spirits without it seeming that you are mad, or sarcastic, or simple, or talking in pictures, or trying to confuse. Or trying to be interesting. It is difficult to talk about demons and make it understood that even if "spirit" is the best word available, it isn't the right word.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
What's the matter, Jess? Why are you sad?' And she'd have to explain that she wasn't sad, just tired, though how she could be so tired in the middle of the day with the sun shining and everything, she didn't know. It made her feel ashamed.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. From 'Rice' by Chun Yang Hee
~ Helen Oyeyemi
There are still days when I can only work out whether or not I'm upset by looking at my face.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. —CHUN YANG HEE
~ Helen Oyeyemi