Selected feelings quotes

1. Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

2. The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

3. To be human means to feel inferior.

4. Do you believe in apathy at first sight?

5. We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

6. I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.

7. Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

8. I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

9. Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

10. Everything about life makes me lonely.

11. I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

12. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

13. The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

14. My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

15. Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

16. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

17. When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

18. Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

19. My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

20. I'm completely uninhabited.

21. In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

22. Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

23. Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

24. Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

25. We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

26. Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

27. Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

28. I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.

29. Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

30. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

31. To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

32. Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

33. What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

34. Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

35. This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

36. Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

37. Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

38. Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

39. Suspense is worse than disappointment.

40. When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

41. Everything has a limit, even human emotions.

42. Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

43. You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

44. Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.

45. There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

46. For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.

47. Oh, beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love?

48. I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static - the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them.

49. The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.

50. 'I'm calling you a creepy little bastard because you creep me out!' (To Christian)

51. Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee, That she in peace may wake and pity me.

52. If, then, one should try to sum up the character of women's fiction at the present moment, one would say that it is courageous; it is sincere; it keeps closely to what women feel. It is not bitter. It does not insist upon its femininity.

53. Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling... Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being in love' - is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.

54. God, beam me up!