Quotes About Feelings

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.

The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.

For I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself.

No," I said. "I don't think I'll ever have a fancy for a man." "Hard luck on the man who loves you," Will offered neutrally. "Very," I said. I shot a sideways look at him. "A disaster for the man who loves me," I repeated. "If he married me he would find me always cold. If he did not, he could waste his life in loving me and I would never return it.

Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.

All learning has an emotional base.

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

Every woman knows there are only two kinds of men: those who feel and those who pretend. Always remember, my dear, though only the former can be loved, only the latter can be trusted. It is passion that blackens eyes, not calculation.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God's Word is the test.

She wanted to lunge over and kiss him. Well, ew, not really, maybe a hug. Or a hanshake. Claire about Oliver

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

And Myrnin seemed quite taken with that, Claire thought; she'd never seen him look at anyone with quite that much admiration. It surprised her that it made her feel a little … what was that? Jealous? Couldn't be.