Quotes About Feelings

You have not, perhaps, any personal merit; so few of us have! But for a time at least you have youth, and that is always a charm. Besides, sir, the greatest folly of all is to laugh at or to condemn in others what one does not happen oneself to feel. I love the night, and you tell me that you are afraid of it.

the past having often thought with terror that one day he would cease to be in love with Odette, he had promised himself to be vigilant and, as soon as he felt his love was beginning to leave him, to cling to it, to hold it back. But now to the weakening of his love there corresponded a simultaneous weakening of his desire to remain in love. For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, 'What are 'her surroundings? What has been her life?' All one's future happiness lies in the answer.

it was only at that moment—more than a year after her burial, because of the anachronism which so often prevents the calendar of facts from corresponding to the calendar of feelings—that I became conscious that she was dead.

By the time one wants to remember how one began to love a woman, one is already in love; during earlier reveries, one did not say to oneself, "this is the beginning of love, I must pay attention," and the feelings crept up on us almost unnoticed.

Love? I make it often, but I never talk about it.

We consider it innocent to desire a thing and atrocious that the other person should desire it.

For to the disturbances of memory are linked the intermittences of the heart.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

Marcel retrospectively remembers moments of anxious anticipation just as he imagines in advance moments when he will have forgotten what he is now feeling. For in fact we negotiate with the memory of our emotions, as much as, if not more than, with our raw emotions themselves.

As for our feelings, we need hardly repeat that love is often only the association between the image of a girl (of whom otherwise we would very quickly have tired) and the increased heart rate inseparable from a long, futile wait when the young lady in question has "stood us up.

Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.

Anxiety is a normal part of human existence, as are other forms of suffering. It is repression of our negative feelings that leads to psychological problems.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

Love sometimes comes fast, sometimes slow. Snatch it when it does, either way.

These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory.

Ogni vera gioia ha una paura dentro.

Il coraggio, Angela, appartiene agli amori nuovi, gli amori vecchi sono sempre un po' vili.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

when we disconnect emotionally and refuse to recognize our own feelings, our Adult abandons our Inner Child. However, when we recognize our feelings and are willing to experience them, we have chosen the intent to love and to learn about ourselves. Then our Adult is connected with our Inner Child. The

That's the pattern of most subversive organization," Peter explained. "They use feelings of patriotism and loyalty to a chosen faith to stir up feelings of hate and so set one group against another.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.