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Quotes About Feelings

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
~ Irvin Kershner
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal--be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse--knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
El amor es algo sobre lo que no se puede influir, es algo que le llega a uno… sin motivo, sin comentarios y sin que uno se pueda resistir. Tal vez pase con el amor lo mismo que con la música: no se puede explicar, le llega a uno al corazón sin necesidad de palabras.
~ Unknown
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.
~ Isidore Isou
Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
~ Isobelle Carmody
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
~ Italo Calvino
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.
~ Italo Calvino
Sorrow and love ? life, in other words ? cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.
~ Italo Svevo
Please rate the strength of your feelings from one to five, one meaning you feel not very strongly about it all, to five meaning you have very strong feelings about me getting top surgery. Now, please fold up your answers and put them in your pocket. Please keep them to yourself, as I will try to do with my feelings about your breasts. Thank you so much for participating.
~ Unknown
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~ Ivan Turgenev
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
~ J. K. Rowling
For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list.
~ Unknown
The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.
~ Damon Galgut
was so happy that I almost wanted to give Andrea a hug. Almost.
~ Dan Gutman
If you ask a boy, 'How did that make you feel?' he very often won't know how to respond. He'll talk instead about what he did or plans to do about the problem. Some boys don't even have the words for their feelings--sad or angry or ashamed--for instance. A large part of our work with boys and men is to help them understand their emotional life and develop an emotional vocabulary.
~ Unknown
Too depressed for a Slurpee? Now that's depressed. My
~ Unknown
I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
~ Dana Plato
Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
~ Dane Cook
Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is a high-wire act. It's best not to look at the other circus performers but to attend to the wire.
~ Unknown
This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]
~ Dani Shapiro
Melankoli adeta kimyasalm??. Havada as?l?ym??. Sabahlar? kokusunu duyabilirmi?sin.
~ Daniel Alarcon