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Quotes About Feeling

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.
~ Brenda Novak
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Hey," Price says. "I'm depressed, I mean impressed.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I thought I was going to cry but it passed
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The lyricist Yip Harburg, author of many classics including "Over the Rainbow," said it simply: "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought."22 Feel a thought. For me, that captures the essence of artistic truth.
~ Brian Greene
The Law of Reversibility in psychology and metaphysics says, "You are more likely to act yourself into feeling a particular way than you are to feel yourself into acting.
~ Brian Tracy
Maybe all these desperate clashing feelings I'm feeling are just random brain activity, maybe I'm just delusional. But there are things that I miss, and things that I feel like I should be seeing and feeling every time I turn around, and I just keep turning and turning and turning, and there's nothing.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
But when ninety-five percent of out-of-bed activities hold the possibility of pain, to be pain-free is simply the most delicious feeling in the world.
~ Caren Lissner
Love isn't about thinking. You should know that by now.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.
~ Terry Eagleton
Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of feeling has rarely done as much damage as a deficiency of it.
~ Terry Eagleton
It should hurt, shouldn't it? Shouldn't it hurt to be ripped in half? But it didn't. It didn't hurt the least little bit. Cold. She felt only cold. But the warm rope of her guts laying against her face felt good. Warm. She took comfort in the warmth.
~ Terry Goodkind
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
~ Terry Pratchett
He sat back and drank the really horrible tea the dwarfs made. Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling on bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that described something that does not make a noise but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss . It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.
~ Terry Pratchett
bazen, dedi, kalbim duruyor sanki.bazen kalbimin att???n? hiç ama hiç hissetmiyorum.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Love is wiser than wisdom." ? Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
~ The Name of the Rose
Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artists all.
~ Theodore Dreiser
She only basked in the warmth of his feeling, which was as a grateful blaze to one who is cold.
~ Theodore Dreiser
His eyes expressed the difficulty he felt.
~ Theodore Dreiser
True love gives us beauty, freshness, solidity, freedom, and peace. True love includes a feeling of deep joy that we are alive. If we don't feel this way when we feel love, then it's not true love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindful observation is based on the principle of "non-duality": our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go[.]
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
~ Annette Bening
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
~ Ray Brown