Quotes About Feeling

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness.

But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of that outer world we call objective. When we look at a painting, we see a price tag. A trip is logistics more than pleasure. Romance dies in household routine. Yet life without feeling is a sort of death.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

When truth's a feeling, can it be both? Both true and untrue?

Avram was shocked. "Well, how is the sand feeling?" he asked after a moment. "Crowded.

By the 1980s, influenced by the psychology and popular culture of trauma, the Left had abandoned solidarity across difference in favor of the meditation on and expression of suffering, a politics of feeling and resentment, of self and sensitivity. The Right, if it didn't describe itself as engaging in identity politics, adopted the same model: the NRA, notably, cultivated the resentments and grievances of white men

Before the first workout, Joe Schultz, the manager (he's out of the old school, I think, because he looks like he's out of the old school—short, portly, bald, ruddy-faced, twinkly eyed), stopped by while I was having a catch. "How you feeling, Jim?" he asked. I wonder what he meant by that.

Drills and explosives did what Willie believed all technologies did: They killed feeling. By assassinating time and space under the guise of saving them, they keep people out of touch when the better state of being, according to Willie and others, is in touch. In his more delirious screeds, Willie claimed that industrialization was a Christian plot to destroy the pagan reflex between sensation and emotion.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.