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Quotes About Feeling

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country
~ Oscar Wilde
La inteligencia es fría. La emoción es cálida.
~ Conny Méndez
How loud a heart could beat. Until it took your breath away.
~ Cornelia Funke
Fox squeezed past him, feeling his warmth like a home.
~ Cornelia Funke
He pressed his fist to where his heart had once beaten, and I did the same. I'm sure I looked like a total idiot, but I think we all do when we're really happy. Except for Longspee. He just looked fabulous being happy.
~ Cornelia Funke
She felt so stupid, and Elinor hated to feel stupid. It was almost worse than feeling sad.
~ Cornelia Funke
Cielo, l'amore era un tormento. Chiunque avesse affermato il contrario non doveva aver mai provato quel maledetto fremito nel petto.
~ Cornelia Funke
When they called boarding for my flight, I got that going-back-to-the-USA feeling. I always went back, no matter how fucked up it was, because America, fuck yeah: milkshakes and giant movie theaters and highways and barbecue and simple politics with only two parties that mostly agreed on mostly everything that mattered, like bombing the shit out of everywhere else.
~ Cory Doctorow
Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy?" Liz asked.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
a traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them.
~ D. Delillo
Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...
~ D. H. Lawrence
Oh - one would feel things instead of merely looking at them. I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become too visual - we can neither hear or feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I think," said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, "that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who can really feel it, is a king, and I envy nobody else!" He put back his pipe.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Do you think one can only care once?' she asked. 'Or never. Most women never care, never begin to. They don't know what it means. Nor men either. But when I see a woman as cares, my heart stands still for her.
~ D.H. Lawrence
And yet, deep inside herself, a sense of injustice, of being defrauded, had begun to burn in Connie. The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.
~ D.H. Lawrence
He was filled with the warmth of her. In the glow, he could almost feel her as if she were present.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base, and must be left to the ancient worshippers of power, worship of Moloch. We do not worship power, in our enlightened souls. Power is degenerated to money and Napoleonic stupidity.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
~ Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
~ Dale Carnegie
He wanted a feeling of importance; and as long as Mr. Parsons argued with him, he got his feeling of importance by loudly asserting his authority. But as soon as his importance was admitted and the argument stopped and he was permitted to expand his ego, he became a sympathetic and kindly human being.
~ Dale Carnegie
A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom--the shadow of a marvelous dream.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
I pulled my hand away. It felt numb and oversized, a paw.
~ Wally Lamb