Quotes on Feelings

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Author: Louisa Alcott

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Author: Irving Babbitt

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Author: John Barton

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Author: Jacques Barzun

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

Author: Elmer Bernstein

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

Author: David Bohm

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Author: Bono

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Author: David Borenstein

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Author: Andrew Bradley

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Author: Les Brown

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

Author: Pearl Buck

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Author: Buddha

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Author: Melvin Calvin

There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

Author: Vince Carter

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

Author: Richard Chamberlain

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

Author: Mark Chapman

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

Author: Lee Child

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

Author: John Clark

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Author: Kurt Cobain

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

Author: J. Coetzee

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

Author: Judy Collins

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

Author: Bill Condon

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Author: Aaron Copland

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

Author: Kevin Costner

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Author: Marion Cotillard

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

Author: David Coverdale

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

Author: Richard Davis

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Author: Jonathan Demme

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Author: Walt Disney

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Author: Cory Doctorow

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Author: Carol Duffy

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

Author: Kim Elizabeth

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Author: Walker Evans

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Author: Adele Faber

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Author: Marianne Faithfull

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Author: Warren Farrell

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Author: Rainer Fassbinder

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Author: Bryan Ferry

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Author: Geoffrey Fisher

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Author: Ric Flair

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

Author: Otto Frank

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

Author: Victor Garber

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

Author: William Geist

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Author: Edward Gibbon

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Author: Johann Goethe

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Author: Corey Haim

With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.

Author: Sean Hannity

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Author: Sydney Harris

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Author: Anna Held

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Author: Joe Henderson

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.

Author: Betty Hill

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

Author: Paris Hilton

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Author: Vernon Howard

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Author: Arianna Huffington

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Author: Laura Innes

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Author: Michael Jackson

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Author: Pope John XXIII

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

Author: Don Johnson

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Author: James Jones

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

Author: January Jones

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Author: Joseph Joubert

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Author: John Keats

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

Author: DeForest Kelley

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Author: Stephen King

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

Author: Thomas King

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Author: Charles Kingsley

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

Author: Klaus Kinski

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

Author: Frank Lampard

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Author: David Lawrence

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

Author: William Leahy

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Author: Brenda Lee

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Author: Tea Leoni

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Author: Monica Lewinsky

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

Author: Joseph Lincoln

First feelings are always the most natural.

Author: Louis Louis XIV

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Author: Lawrence Lovasik

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Author: Martin Luther

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Author: Loretta Lynn

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

Author: Maxwell Maltz

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Author: Maxwell Maltz

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

Author: Kent McCord

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Author: Alice Miller

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

Author: Keith Miller

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

Author: Maria Monk

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.

Author: Helen Moody

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Author: Jim Morrison

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Author: Jelly Morton

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

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Author: Florence Nightingale

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Author: Louis Nizer

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

Author: Joaquin Phoenix

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Author: Luigi Pirandello

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Author: Michael Polanyi

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Author: Emily Post

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Author: Victoria Pratt

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

Author: Harold Ramis

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

Author: Frank Reynolds

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Author: John Robinson

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

Author: Portia Rossi

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Author: John Ruskin

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Author: Sallust

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

Author: Greta Scacchi

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Author: Dougray Scott

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Author: Ayrton Senna

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Author: Brooke Shields

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Author: Sarah Silverman

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Author: Diogenes Sinope

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Author: Herbert Spencer

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Author: Willie Stargell

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Author: Anne Stevenson

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Author: Anne Stevenson

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

Author: Patrick Stewart

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Author: Ichiro Suzuki

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Author: Taylor Swift

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Author: Randall Terry

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Author: Vinny Testaverde

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

Author: Edward Thorndike

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Author: Mel Torme

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Author: Ivan Turgenev

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

Author: Hunter Tylo

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Author: Samuel Ullman

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

Author: Tony Visconti

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Author: Oscar Wilde

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

Author: Tom Wilkinson

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Author: John Wooden

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

Author: Francis Wright

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

Author: Judith Wright

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

Author: Judith Wright

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Author: Xun Zi