Quotes About Feeling

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope –that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

Her narrow oval face was so like his and yet so not. He had never been so divorced from feeling, never so abstract in his anger as she was now.

I could feel the attention as if it were an embrace.

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

and kisses are a better fate than wisdom —e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first

Darcy didn't want this interruption to last only a year. She wanted to see how long she could stretch this feeling out. To be dizzy with words again, like in that glorious week at the end of last November when everything had fallen into place. Darcy wanted that feeling not just for a year. She wanted it forever.

Lindsey hates to write lyrics, though. Maybe that's why some of his songs are so negative. [Laughs] He'll have all these beautiful songs that are instrumentals for months. They have gorgeous melodies, layer upon layer of guitars. I exercise to his tapes, practice ballet to them. Then he'll write the lyrics for this beautiful song and it'll have a different feeling than the music.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something.

How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ...

While it's calming to be reassured, it never lasts. As soon as we hear the words, the feeling begins to fade away. There's never enough reassurance to make up for a lack of commitment to the practice. We have no choice other than to trust ourselves enough to lead the way.

I was emotionally erect.

If you care about something enough, its going to make you cry.

I cry because I'm crying.

Where are my guards? (Wulf) Oh, one is right here, but he's not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of people rather quite. As for the other…he's…oh, wait, dead now. (Stryker)

I would kiss you anyway, but I have a feeling that if I tried– (Rafael) I'd kick you in the nuts and tear your ear off. (Celena) That would hurt. (Rafael) That's the idea. (Celena)

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.