Quotes About Feelings

Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.

Aunque el vulgo no admite cambios bruscos en los sentimientos, no es menos cierto que dos amantes se separan a menudo más rápidamente de lo que tardan en unirse. Iba incubándose en madame de Bargeton y en Lucien un desencanto sobre ellos mismos cuya causa no era otra que París.

Para ser traducida por la voz, así como para ser comprendida, la poesía exige una religiosa atención. Ha de crearse entre el lector y el auditorio una íntima complicidad, sin la cual no se produce la comunicación eléctrica de los sentimientos. Si falta esta comunión de las almas, el poeta se encuentra en la misma situación que un ángel que tratara de entonar un himno celestial en medio de las risas burlonas del infierno.

Are not our feelings the most glorious part of our life? It is this partial death which, in certain delicate or powerful natures, leads to the terrible ruin produced by disenchantment, by hopes and passions betrayed.

It is so natural to believe in the realization of a noble vision, in the Brotherhood of Man. But, alas! the human machine does not have such divine proportions. Souls that are vast enough to grasp a range of feelings bestowed on great men only will never belong to either fathers of families or simple citizens.

Of all forms of tyranny, the most odious is that which constantly robs the soul of the merit of its thoughts and deeds. It has to abdicate without having reigned. The word we are readiest to speak, the feelings we most love to express, die when we are commanded to utter them.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Obey society?" cried the Marquise, with an involuntary shudder. "Eh! monsieur, it is the source of all our woes. God laid down no law to make us miserable; but mankind, uniting together in social life, have perverted God's work. Civilization deals harder measure to us women than nature does. Nature imposes upon us physical suffering which you have not alleviated; civilization has developed in us thoughts and feelings which you cheat continually.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Daca inima omeneasca afla clipe de ragaz in timp ce urca pe culmile afectiunii, rareori se opreste pe povarnisul abrupt al sentimentelor dusmanoase

It's about more than just being beautiful. It's about having all of these uncomfortable feelings inside you and not knowing how to express them or deal with them.

I think feeling it, letting myself risk love and letting myself be loved, is one of the biggest challenges left for me.

If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.

If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?

The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart

The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes.

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.

We have no use for emotions, let alone sentiments, but are solely concerned with passions.

I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.

We Scots, Rebus thought, we're not very good at going public. We store up our true feelings like fuel for long winter nights of whisky and recrimination. So little of us ever reaches the surface, it's a wonder we exist at all.

Crushes do crush, looks do kill but love has come to show the difference