Quotes About Feelings

I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.

Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Indifference is not caring. Detachment is caring deeply enough to separate.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

There are many things that would be lost if we slowly lose the cognitive patience to immerse ourselves in the worlds created by books and the lives and feelings of the "friends" who inhabit them.

Penelope had read several novels about such governesses in preparation for her interview and found them chock-full of useful information, although she had no intention of developing romantic feelings for the charming, penniless tutor at a neighboring estate. Or - heaven forbid! - for the darkly handsome, brooding, and extravagantly wealthy master of her own household. Lord Frederick Ashton was newly married in any case, and she had no inkling what his complexion might be

In this way Penelope's happy and sad feelings got all mixed up together, until they were not unlike one of those delicious cookies they have nowadays, the ones with a flat circle of sugary cream sandwiched between two chocolate-flavored wafers. In her heart she felt a soft, hidden core of sweet melancholy nestled inside crisp outer layers of joy, and if that is not the very sensation most people feel at some point or other during the holidays, then one would be hard pressed to say what is.

Gewiß, ich bin sehr happy: Doch glücklich bin ich nicht.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Y cuanto mas intensamente ames, más intenso será el dolor futuro.

Yo la amaba, e incluso amándola al revés, no llegaba a detestarla.

Il y a bien des souvenirs, mais quelqu'un les a électrifiés et connectés à nos cils, dès qu'on y pense on a les yeux qui brûlent.

An ounce of love is greater than a ton of passion.

Falling in love is better than standing in hate.

Hidden love is better than open hate.

Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine.

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.

Love is better experienced than discussed.