Quotes About Feeling

To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky. My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father, and to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.

english isn't a good language to express emotion through mostly i imagine because people try to speak english instead of trying to speak through it

and i've begun (as a reaction to a feeling) to balance the pleasure of loneliness against the pain of loving you from Balances

Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

And she'd fallen in love. It couldn't be that fast. It couldn't be that simple. It couldn't be. But it was. She didn't have to have felt it all before to know what tripped and stumbled inside her. She breathed in, breathed out, took a good glug of wine.

Sympathy covered Eden's face as she nodded.

Yeah." It was all Cam could say.

Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein … Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommunizieren. Ich bin tot, nicht geistesgestört.

Ich ärgere mich, also bin ich.

The only thing that makes earth feel like Hell, or Hell feel like Hell, is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

La función de los programas concurso es que nos sintamos mejor cuando pensamos en todos esos datos aleatorios e inútiles que es lo único que nos queda de la educación que hemos recibido

So why, then, can't Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap?

It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her—inside every submissive—was deeply aroused.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself

Experience was made up of endless ambiguities—of motive, of feeling, of cause and effect—and if he was to win under such circumstances, he had to understand how those ambiguities worked.

Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa.

Urquhart could somehow feel the glow on his skin as the hairs on his arms raised up and the thick pelt of man fur that covered his torso and back prickled as if the legs of a thousand insects were crawling on his body.

The Outsider is primarily a critic, and if a critic feels deeply enough about what he is criticizing, he becomes a prophet.

Alma used the word settled the way less genteel people used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.