Can't Explain My Feelings Quotes

#1. I can't explain my feelings for him ... they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.

Nadege Richards

#2. In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

Scott Fujita

#3. Sometimes i feel upset but don't have the word to explain what really is wrong. Because most of the time I'm not sure what is actually wrong. I have trouble recognizing my emotions and feelings.

Tina J. Richardson

#4. You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.

Bill Watterson

#5. Being bisexual and having different feelings when you're attracted to guys than when you are to girls is to hard to explain because being attracted to a guy is like 'ah' and being attracted to a girl is like 'oo' but that doesn't make any sense to anyone but me.

Unknown

#6. When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

Michael Eisen

#7. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.

K.A. Mitchell

#8. The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe in the future. Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one.

John Green

#9. What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Stephen King

#10. Trust your intuition. You don't need to explain or justify your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best.

Unknown

#11. She still doesn't trust my motives?" He was grinning now.

Brenda Hiatt

#12. I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

Amy Chua

#13. I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.

Marilou

#14. 55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.

Howard Schultz

#15. Why are you giving this to me?""well, for a lot of reasons. most of which i can't really explain properly. that's why people give presents, right? because they don't know how to express themselves in words, so you give gifts to symbolically explain your feelings.

Matthew Quick

#16. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#17. I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

Julie Delpy

#18. Throughout history, different cultures have produced creation myths that explain our origins as the result of cosmic forces shaping our destiny. These histories have helped us to ward off feelings of insignificance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. Mom: Why aren't you doing very well in history? Billy: Because the teacher keeps asking about things that happened before I was born!

Various

#20. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

John C. Maxwell

#21. IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#22. If I didn't already love you, Jessica Chase, I'd fall in love with you all over again, every minute of every day.

Olivia Cunning

#23. 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

#24. Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

Nicholas Sparks

#25. If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

Charles Albert Gobat

#26. There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#27. Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

Peter Singer

#28. I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is gloomy the gloom is not so much inherent in the literature as in the times.

Bill Styron

#29. Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?

Belinda Jeffrey

#30. Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.
The Nature of Emotions (2001)

Robert Plutchik

#31. Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Paul Tobin

#32. A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

Louise Bourgeois

#33. Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

Gayle Forman

#34. Art expresses complex intangible feelings we can't explain in any other way. Art is everywhere, art is love; love is God; God is art. They're one and the same.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#35. A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.

William Golding

#36. Roll up the window. I can't explain the feelings going through me, a rush like you get from laughing too hard or

Lauren Oliver

#37. Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Cristiane Serruya

#38. Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

Shalom Harlow

#39. We win because we play together as a team.

John Havlicek

#40. It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.

Cass McCombs

#41. Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Paulo Coelho

#42. It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

Thomas M. Disch