Quotes About Feelings

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

If getting older has taught me one thing, it's that I feel so many conflicting things about so many different things, and to negate or stifle any of them doesn't make them go away. Emotions don't necessarily have a moral compass. Feelings can't be shamed into disappearing. Suppressing and ignoring them will only make them come back to bite you in the therapist's chair.

Things happen that you don't expect, like I never expected to fall in love with you.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

We ought to love children, as my friend Deborah says, 'for no good reason.' Furthermore, what counts is not that we believe we love them unconditionally, but that they feel loved in that way.

You, who opened suns in my heart

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Now the highest literature—and Poetry is confessedly the highest literature—is a transfiguring reflex of life; and in its magic mirror we perforce see reflected all the thoughts, feelings, interests, passions, and events of human existence.

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

Je suis rongé d'une tristesse auprès de laquelle la nuit la plus sombre est une lumière éblouissante

Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days. I watched Hillary Clinton on the news the other day, and I got choked up by Hillary Clinton.

I dislike anger so much, I even find it difficult watching 'EastEnders.'

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath - things that seemed more shocking - and then, of course, eventually I would find bands and writers who were laying things out very clearly and whose words felt very sharp to the touch and sharp to your feelings.

I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

I have this big, old, oversize Levi's denim jacket, and I honestly think it might be for a dude. And on the back, it says, 'Catch feelings, not waves,' which I love because I'm very emotional.