Quotes About Feelings

But pure joy! He'd forgotten what it feels like, to feel. To feel even just the thought of one's own bared self near someone else's beauty.

The head has its confines. The head's got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Do you hate me so much? no, I cant hate you. I wish I could, but I cant

I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are preferable to feelings. I honestly don't know yet what free is, but I know what it isn't.

The days beaded a smooth chain of fine feeling.

She rarely cried at life, but certain turns of phrase prompted hot tears to sting her cheeks.

Being in love is not cool!

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

For one is free from it only when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of ones own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.

Depression as Denial of the Self Depression consists of a denial of one's own emotional reactions. This denial begins in the service of an absolutely essential adaptation during childhood and indicates a very early injury. There are many children who have not been free, right from the beginning, to experience the very simplest of feelings, such as discontent, anger, rage, pain, even hunger—and, of course, enjoyment of their own bodies.

I'm your perceptions, shuddering.

it goes away and you almost forget it but emotions stay

what a nervous readiness attached to its lament

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Als je zo naar me blijft kijken, ga ik nog denken dat je me leuk vindt,' spon ze. - Claire tegen Nick.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

He smiles then exhales a tiny tornado. I wonder if his ribs are big enough for how he feels. His body is radiating something, but I can't tell what.

As though, after five years, a light's been switched on, and how Camille Gardener feels is the only thing that matters

The course of love was never straight.

Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.