Quotes About Feeling

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

For it is so with time and memory: the seed of our deepest feeling is buried under the rush of a momentary and violent one, there is in all feeling a quality of deception and evasion, and the meanings of the spirit become evident only in the light of a dispassionate distance

See that? Paul said. Ten goddamn seconds. I don't get it. You didn't even have to hear the whole song, just a few lines, and you got the chills and that swirly, happy-sad feeling in your gut, didn't you? ... That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only feel it.

E dopo al posto della pioggia, si presentò l'amore, nel mio petto. E mentre ci restava, nel petto, alluvionò il mio cuore

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault.

The strongest, the most certain thing I think I know about the process is there is really, really good news if you end up feeling lucky rather than clever.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

How did it feel Bad. Real bad. That's good. That it made you feel bad. I'm glad. How come? It means you're not a liar. You are deep, Thomas. Frank smiled. What you want to be when you grow up? Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. A man, he said and left.

Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.

We were passing suits of armor at irregular intervals, and as usual, I had an uncomfortable feeling that I was under observation. "There's someone inside that armor, isn't there?" I whispered to Mr. George. "Some poor novice who can't go to the toilet all day, right? I can tell he's staring at us.

For the first time I felt quite important to Charlotte. It was a nice feeling to be needed for a change.

the gut had a mind of its own

Even when it was happening to me, I thought, 'This will make a good story someday,' but now that I think of it, its story's not that good at all. More important than its plot, it's the quality of feeling that strikes me now-something out of this world, 'outlandish' in its literal sense.

history that seeks to exalt a nation's strengths without examining its shortcomings, that values feeling good over thinking hard, that embraces simplistic celebration over complex understanding, isn't history; it's propaganda.

The Qur'?n is not a parcel to be intellectually unwrapped, nor merely a beatitude to be ecstatically experienced. Do not approach the Qur'?n as a split person; leave neither intellect nor feeling behind you when you study it; let both come together.

Love is an elusive concept and means different things to different people.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

Why should you try to never have laughter again? Did you die? No, you are alive. So be alive! Laugh if you want to, cry if you must, let yourself feel.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.