Quotes About Feeling Small

#1. Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#2. When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. Because there is trust too, in feeling small.

Durga Chew-Bose

#4. They experienced the world, I supposed, as I experienced going to the movies: that flash of amazement petitioned, in part, from feeling small in the presence of bigness.

Durga Chew-Bose

#5. I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.

Anna Banks

#6. People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes.

Nomar Garciaparra

#7. I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.

Daniel Quinn

#8. He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

Michael Koryta

#9. My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Tyler Hilton

#10. I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

Lissie

#11. On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Warren Spector

#12. We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God:

Frederick Lenz

#13. Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.

Max McKeown

#14. Come on," Zane taunted with a sharp thrust. He dug his fingers into Ty's hips, trying for any small bit of control he could get. "Paint the door for me, and you'll be feeling my cum drip out of you the rest of the night." Ty

Abigail Roux

#15. What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

#16. You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Alex Haley

#17. If Mom was feeling ambitious, she scribbled a small list of items beneath the word, but seeing as her handwriting is virtually illegible, we won't know what's in each box until we actually open it. Like Christmas. Except we already own everything.

Victoria Schwab

#18. Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

Dave Ramsey

#19. For a small period of time, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. She made me feel less isolated in my sadness.

Kiera Cass

#20. He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Charles R. Cross

#21. It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!

Sharon Salzberg

#23. God looked and smelled so fucking delicious, like masculinity and aftershave. Day knew the grip on his neck was not to hurt him, it was to show him who was in charge. God's sheer strength and power had Day feeling like he could come right there in the small conference room. "Oh,

A.E. Via

#24. there's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--"
a small boy appeared beside them and, swinging a handful of banana peels, flung them valiantly in the direction of the potomac.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

America Ferrera

#26. Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Joseph Roux

#27. There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Tiesto

#28. How are you feeling?"
"Like I fell out a burning building onto pavement, you?" I grumbled.
"Like I was pushed out of a burning building by a maniac," she retorted, a small smile playing across her face.

R.R. Virdi

#29. The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal.

Albert Einstein

#30. Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious
and self- righteous while you starve small children!

V.C. Andrews

#31. It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

Joseph Conrad

#32. Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

Dan Lipinski

#33. Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

E.L. Konigsburg

#34. Four small flames ignite and illuminate our faces and chests, revealing expressions that are part wonder, part fear, and part feeling stupid.

Kendare Blake

#35. How are you feeling?" Charlie asked, adding a small bottle of V-8 juice to the bedside table.
"Like I just sat through an entire Justin Bieber concert."
"Headache and nausea?
"And an overwhelming desire to die.

Tammy Blackwell

#36. You may be serving in obscurity in some small place, feeling unknown and unappreciated. Listen, God put you were you are for a purpose! ... He will let you know if he wants you somewhere else.

Rick Warren

#37. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.

Jean Kennedy Smith

#38. I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G's but just to get the feeling of just for once flying above humanity.

Wouter Van Gastel

#39. The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done.
( ... and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)

Asma Naqi

#40. Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know.

Robert M. Pirsig

#41. It is hard to believe that a place this small can hold so much hate, and I have the terrible feeling I've only just seen the surface.

Carolee Dean

#42. His smile was small and fierce as he leaned forward into Neil's space. "Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit." Neil

Nora Sakavic

#43. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Carew Papritz

#44. It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.

Helen Simonson

#45. Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been

Beth Harbison

#46. I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

Morgan Matson

#47. When I was small, I always hid to read. I couldn't shake the feeling that because reading was so pleasurable, it must somehow be illicit.

Kate Morton

#48. There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.

Jeremy Camp

#49. I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

Suzanne Collins

#50. Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

Libba Bray

#51. The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.

Ann Rinaldi

#52. Ruby's eyes shot open when she woke, for she felt a constraint around her wrists and ankles. Feeling with her fingers, she touched cold metal. Her small movement gave the chains a slight jingle. A sinking feeling washed over her at the realization that she was chained.

Jettie Necole

#53. In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

David Levithan

#54. There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

Mavis Staples

#55. We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

Nichole Nordeman

#56. George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

Mette Ivie Harrison

#57. I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.

Debbi Fields

#58. Some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump.

Brenda Novak

#59. I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

Gavin DeGraw

#60. Maybe the key for me to move forward wasn't to eliminate everything I was feeling; maybe all I needed to do was focus on the feeling that made all others seem small.

Kiera Cass

#61. I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language.

Nick Earls

#62. I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

Mesa Selimovic

#63. Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Barton

#64. When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen ... It's small thing, but means a lot ... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen ... it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget ...

Nutan Bajracharya

#65. There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world.

Franny Billingsley

#66. Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#67. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Peter McWilliams

#68. Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy reserves.

Howard Martin

#69. Feeling my middle section, which is and always has been bountiful, I said I did not think I would fit in the small

Patrick DeWitt

#70. At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#71. It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

Joshua Roman

#72. I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#73. Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.

Sylvia Plath

#74. As one does the return of sun after winter, I stood still and accepted the warm glow of possibility, of feeling right in the company of this small, oddly fierce person, with the inky hair and the lovely, unemphasized body.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#75. You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets. She had a tiny terrier once, which she was very fond of. It made me unhappy, because I was afraid of treading on it. I am rather short-sighted.

George Eliot

#76. National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

Peter Weir

#77. Wish that there was someone I could explain this to. Someone who might understand what I'm feeling. And for one small second, I do imagine the person I could talk to, about finding this door, and losing it. He would understand. But that's one door that needs to stay shut.

Gayle Forman

#78. these small children, listening with eyes wide and in rapt concentration, would one day grow up to need reading, with its accompanying sense of wonder and the feeling of having a film running inside your head, as much as they needed air to breathe.

Nina George

#79. Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

James Bay

#80. We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.

Nina LaCour

#81. It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

Beyonce Knowles

#82. Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Karen Horney

#83. No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed,
then it might be a good chance for you ...
to be a better man.

Toba Beta

#84. I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.

Libba Bray

#85. How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

Richelle Mead

#86. A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Max Delbruck

#87. Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

Lauren Mackler

#88. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart

Iris Murdoch

#89. You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.

Gary LeVox

#90. Gently he nibbled at my skin, stroked it with his tongue, gradually making his way downward. I closed my eyes, my senses sharpened, and the feeling became even more intense. His lips slid down my belly, traced a small circle around my navel...

Sharlyn G. Branson

#91. Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

Charlotte Rampling

#92. Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love.

Debasish Mridha

#93. It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

Libba Bray

#94. Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Umberto Eco

#95. At that moment - in that small, concise, perfectly clear moment of time - I knew. It was that moment I fell in love with him. It actually caused me to stop, and time froze for just a second. But that feeling was so right, and so strong, that I knew I wasn't wrong.

Jessica Verday

#96. It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I do, for I say to myself: Since any small good deed I do can be mistaken for a fault, the mistake of calling a fault a virtue can be made just as easily.

John Beevers

#97. Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

Dan Ariely

#98. Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

Jeffrey R. Holland

#99. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

J.M. Barrie

#100. ...the thing about dieting is that it's really horrible and boring for a longer period of time than feeling pretty in small jeans feels. That's just basic math.

Brittany Gibbons