Quotes About Feeling

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it's not an absence of feeling?

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling.

Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood - which is odd when you think about it, because at school learning is based on whether or not we understand what we are reading. In fact it is the story (or the poem) that is understanding us. Books read us back to ourselves.

To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

Este favor del público, de ningún modo buscado, y para un autor desconocido, me inspiró la primera confianza verdadera en mi capacidad, de que había dudado hasta entonces, a pesar del sentimiento interno.

Hay más: el verdadero placer no se describe; sólo se siente, y tanto más cuanto menos puede describirse, porque no resulta de un conjunto de hechos sino de un estado permanente.

Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Love was not something to be felt, not a particular emotion, nor yet a particular shade of feeling, it was much more like a lowering curse on the horizon, a precursor of disaster.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.

There's parts during the meet where it's not the greatest feeling - the stress that you feel, the pressure I put on myself.