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Quotes About Feeling

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
~ Robert Jordan
Humor can be marvelously therapeutic," adds another observer. "It can deflate without destroying; it can instruct while it entertains; it saves us from our pretensions; and it provides an outlet for feeling that expressed another way would be corrosive.
~ Robert M. Gates
The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. Art when it is opposed to Science is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience. In the northern European cultures the romantic mode is usually associated with femininity, but this is certainly not a necessary association.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about. But no one is willing to give up the truth as he sees it, and as far as I know, no one now living has any real reconciliation of these truths or modes.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
In dem erfrorenen, versteinerten Körper der Stadt fühlte er ganz zu innerst sein Herz schlagen.
~ Robert Musil
Alles, was wir denken, ist entweder Zuneigung oder Abneigung.
~ Robert Musil
We wrote every day, but the letters began to seem like checks drawn on the summer's capital. There had been a lot in the bank, but it is never good business practice to live on your capital, and I had the feeling, somehow, of living on the capital and watching something dwindle.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Don't give up all your romance, Anne, he whispered shyly, a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh I know. But feeling is so different than knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times where common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
~ L.M. Montgomery
His look felt like a touch
~ Lauren Willig
A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .
~ Laurence Sterne
Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Me: All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage - whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
~ J. D. Salinger
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
~ William Shakespeare
Happiness is a sad song.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.
~ Michael Franti