Feeling Quotes

#1. We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

Allan Bloom

#2. Fulfillment in knowing you are doing what God called you to do is far better than merely feeling comfortable.

Lorna Dobson

#3. When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

Morgan Freeman

#4. Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?

Claire Cross

#5. Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

William James

#6. I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

Abbas Kiarostami

#7. I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string he was holding, and if he let go, I'd float off into the ether.

Ava Dellaira

#8. I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

William Ritter

#9. I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.

Ted Kluszewski

#10. When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there's that feeling that the grass is always greener.

Ciara

#11. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.

Neal Stephenson

#12. I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

Anja Niedringhaus

#13. The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Alain De Botton

#14. I am excited to be on set. I love what I do. As long as I have that feeling, then I'm gonna stick to it. As long as I'm lucky enough to get projects and keep working, I will always be grateful for it.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#15. The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

Gary McCord

#16. I read once that you get deja vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa ... that would explain the weird double feeling that it leaves you with, like the world is splitting in half
or you are.

Lauren Oliver

#17. When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.

Kevin Griffin

#18. I didn't know what it was I was feeling. Then I realized it was seeing someone and knowing immediately that you love him.

Elizabeth McCracken

#19. I'm going to continue keeping an eye on him, Becca said. If he does anything shady, I'll report back. I swear I won't let anything bad happen to you if I can help it.
He nodded as he collected the copper box and began to follow after Barnabas. The feeling is entirely mutual, Becca Hatcher.

Morgan Rhodes

#20. When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Elie Wiesel

#21. There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Gillian Flynn

#22. When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.

Dolly Parton

#23. Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

Billy Connolly

#24. Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#25. The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.

Jacques Villeneuve

#26. Love is like a fart. It's warm, unpredictable. And sometimes it stinks, but it can also be the best feeling in the world. That's why I'm so happy that I passed you that day. I know now ... I fart you

Ryan Higa

#27. It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

Mary Travers

#28. The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

Harrison Ford

#29. And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.

Jennifer Egan

#30. I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.

Fernando Pessoa

#31. How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Eileen Wilks

#32. I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

Ivan Turgenev

#33. I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.

Ali Larter

#34. On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

Esperanza Spalding

#35. Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Harold Kushner

#36. Feeling hearts
touch them but lightly
pour
A thousand melodies unheard before.

Samuel Rogers

#37. Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

Kathleen Edwards

#38. When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Mel Brooks

#39. I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Shannon Hale

#40. He wonders whether this very idea of loneliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely,

Hanya Yanagihara

#41. Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.

Deepak Chopra

#42. He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.

Meljean Brook

#43. Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, Hey, at least I'm not pregnant

Daniel Tosh

#44. I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence ... luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

Sylvia Plath

#45. Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.

Arthur C. Clarke

#46. The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

Rihanna

#47. Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

Walter Kirn

#48. Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

Edward Hoagland

#49. When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.

Kelly Holmes

#50. It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

Hunter S. Thompson

#51. Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness

Amy Huntley

#52. 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.

Jeremih

#53. You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

Wilbur Smith

#54. We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Cesare Pavese

#55. If you're not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn't it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

Glenn Haybittle

#56. The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

Alex Ebert

#57. I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#58. The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another ... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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Leonard Bernstein

#59. A feeling of nagging, hopeless impotence came over Shimamura at the thought that a simple misunderstanding had worked its way so deep into the woman's being.

Yasunari Kawabata

#60. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.

Joel Plaskett

#61. Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

Baal Shem Tov

#62. the heart of care is empathy, a feeling and enactment of intentional regard for the well-being of others and by extension the support systems (e.g., universal health care and a living wage) that insure well-being.

Donna King

#63. She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

Maggie O'Farrell

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

Charles Dickens

#65. What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.

Duncan Trussell

#66. Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

Munia Khan

#67. A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Chris Kilham

#68. No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.

Anthony Euwer

#69. His head bowed and his lips fastened softly on my nipple. I groaned, feeling the half-painful prickle of the milk rushing through the tiny ducts. I put a hand behind his head, and pressed him slightly closer. "Harder," I whispered.

Diana Gabaldon

#70. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#71. I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Aleksa Palladino

#72. I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#73. I'm three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Rory McIlroy

#74. We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. Why does this feel so right?" I murmured past the tightness in my throat.
"Why do you keep fighting this feeling?"
"Because I'm not supposed to want this."
His smile returned, slowly curving his lips up. "But you do anyway.

Melissa Darnell

#76. Well, chaos was not unfamiliar to him. In daily life, his emotions were chaos. He let himself become a vessel for them, letting feeling roar through him, pulling him around like a kite, boiling him like water in a kettle, dissolving him in a whirl of elements.

Mary Gaitskill

#77. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Eugene H. Peterson

#78. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Henry Ward Beecher

#79. When she returned to her cabin, Dr.Gabriel was already there examining Sterling's back. Sterling lay on his stomach, on her bunk, his eyes closed. She wondered if he was sleeping. She doubted it. He was probably unconscious. Or perhaps he'd closed his eyes in order to hide what he was feeling.

Jade Parker

#80. She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again.

William Gibson

#81. So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness
united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#82. I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Demetri Martin

#83. Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

Karen Salmansohn

#84. I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

Patterson Hood

#85. The mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, it is he who is dead and not I.

Leo Tolstoy

#86. feeling a bit like cinderella, she made it home at two minutes past one last night.

Karen Mahoney

#87. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#88. My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

Lauren Bacall

#89. He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.

Jim Thompson

#90. That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.

Dennis Garvin

#91. Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

George Rodrigue

#92. Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

David Deida

#93. ...this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.

David Mark

#94. Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

Paulo Coelho

#95. Everyone can teach themselves to cry ... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

Cayden Boyd

#96. I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

Barbara Jordan

#97. No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnetha Faltskog

#98. I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

Megan Fox

#99. And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling

Wilfred Owen

#100. Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave me this kick-back-and-relax, Sunday-morning kind of feeling.

Haruki Murakami