Feelings Quotes

• When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.

  

  Stanley Spencer
  • Quality
  • Special
  • Unexpected

• But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Night
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

  

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  • Thoughts
  • Intimate
  • Attire

• The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

  

  Rumi
  • Chest
  • Trembled
  • Flapped

• Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Objectification

• You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Children
  • Deep

• Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

  

  David Starkey
  • Writing
  • Embrace
  • Privilege

• What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Loneliness

• The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Feelings
  • Affair
  • Ownership

• It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…

  

  Winston Grime
  • Feelings
  • Fool
  • To Be

• The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

  

  Tony Iommi Black Sabbath
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Audience

• You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Singing
  • Angel
  • Own

• God has a purpose for our feelings - the good and the bad.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Easy
  • Existence
  • Offended

• When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Family
  • Dreams
  • Female

• Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

  

  Ann Burton
  • Trying
  • Simple
  • Everyday

• I have written quite a lot of songs about dealing with my feelings surrounding the disease. I have written songs about the fear and anxiety I have around my disease, and the fear of it coming back. Some of my songs might seem like relationship songs, but are more about my relationship with that struggle.

  

  Ane Brun
  • Feelings
  • Songs
  • Disease

• I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Creative

• The primary focus of psychotherapy involves the integration of feelings (affect) and thinking (cognition), resulting in personal growth.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Thinking
  • Integration
  • Psychotherapy

• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Nice

• You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Interested
  • Write Songs
  • Pop Groups

• Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Today

• All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Giving
  • Style
  • Opinion

• I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Photography

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