Quotes About Feeling

That night had been the first time I'd felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was then that I realized I'd risk anything to feel that way all the time—and most days, I did.

Jenks's wings tickled my neck, and I shivered.

If you don't act on it, it wasn't a true feeling

But to some people home was home, a complex of feeling far beyond rationality, a sort of grid or gravitational field in which the personality itself took its geometrical shape. While for others, a place was just a place, and the self free of all that, the same no matter where it was. One kind lived in the Einsteinian curved space of home, the other in the Newtonian absolute space of the free self.

The virus is rewriting our imaginations. What felt impossible has become thinkable. We're getting a different sense of our place in history. We know we're entering a new world, a new era. We seem to be learning our way into a new structure of feeling.

you feel will also change—both in your body and in how you understand it as a meaning. Say the order of your time feels unjust and unsustainable and yet massively entrenched, but also falling apart before your eyes. The obvious contradictions in this list might yet still describe the feeling of your time quite accurately, if we are not mistaken.

Spontaneous storms, and changes in color that were not tied to changes in wind speeds, and fractal borders, bounded infinities scrolling inside each other. We were looking at a mind thinking. A mind feeling. The woodwind glissando of the whale's cry.

It's the structure of feeling in our time; we can't think in anything but economic terms, our ethics must be quantified and rated for the effects that our actions have on GDP. This is said to be the only thing people can agree on. Although those who say this are often economists.

His feeling for ivory was somewhat undeveloped.

As he'd slept one night, suffering from some nightmare, she'd gazed down at him with tenderness. Her chest had ached with feeling for him—as his continued to do for her. She'd smoothed hair from his brow, soothing him with soft words.

You wanna know what I'm feeling? Lemme tell you, bébé. Amusement. You're acting like we got some kind of choice in this matter. You're just as screwed as I am—because we're both too far gone for the other.

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.' 'Goodness,' I babbled, 'but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you're not going to feel any better all day.

If I had a heart

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

I don't want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn't quite pleasing.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.