#Feeling Quotes

“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”

“The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.”

“Individuality is founded in feeling”

“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”

“There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.”

“I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.”

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

“To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.”

“Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.”

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.”

“That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.”

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

“In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.”

“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”

“I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.”

“Attention without feeling is only a report.”

“When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.”

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”

“I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.”

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.”

“Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.”

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

“I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.”

“Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.”

“. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .”

“Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.”

“Things must be felt with the heart.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“How would you like to feel the way she looks?”

“Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.”

“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.”

“When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”

“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet”

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”

“Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.”

“It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!”

“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”

“Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.”

“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”

“Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.”

“And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”

“When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.”

“An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.”

“Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.”