To Feel Something Quotes

#1. First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up.

Rajneesh

#2. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Simon Van Booy

#3. Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

Melanie Griffith

#5. As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#6. I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Diane Warren

#7. I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

Howard Shore

#8. I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck

#9. A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Tim Reid

#10. All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#11. No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.

Herman Melville

#12. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

#13. In the quiet of the morning
You only have to rise
To feel something's wrong.
Uncontrollable circumstances
Tense the air and you know
Something's going to happen.

--Susan Bernhardt

Susan Bernhardt

#14. Time comes when every man's got to feel something new
when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

Clare Boothe Luce

#15. There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

Tom Odell

#16. I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

Julie Murphy

#17. It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Jesus didn't command his followers to feel something. He commanded them to do some things.

Andy Stanley

#19. You can't help what you feel."
"I can try harder to feel something different.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#20. It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life.

Jojo Moyes

#21. Never take for granted your ability to feel something good and laugh.

Lorelei James

#22. I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

#23. I didn't want to die. I was just trying to feel something.

Emery Lord

#24. I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.

Rhys Darby

#25. want to feel something that is actually something. A feeling that is identifiable and real. A

Lauren Graham

#26. I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

James Lipton

#27. When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

Anthony Jeselnik

#28. When people come to my shows, they have the freedom to feel something, and we're all just a big bowl of feels.

Christina Perri

#29. Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

Tim Lebbon

#30. It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.

Francine Prose

#31. I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Aldous Huxley

#32. That's the emptiest feeling, to know that you would hurt someone else just to feel something.

R.K. Lilley

#33. To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

Fernando Pessoa

#34. You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

#35. We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

Art Garfunkel

#36. I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

Brett Gelman

#37. As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

Elisha Cuthbert

#38. Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

Stacey Kade

#39. I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If they're going to spend two hours with me, and trust me to lead them around, I'd like to take them someplace special.

Harold Ramis

#40. I don't want to be the person who tries to force you to feel something you don't.

Aimee Carter

#41. They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried.

Christopher Scotton

#42. I'd always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.

Demitria Lunetta

#43. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

Paula Hawkins

#44. Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.

Marisha Pessl

#45. Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

M.I.A.

#46. Every time you speak to people, give them something to feel, something to remember, and something to do.

John C. Maxwell

#47. I know you think hiding is your best option. But trust me, you have to feel something in order to heal. Ignoring pain only makes it worse."~Asher Powell

Tammy L. Gray

#48. Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.

Nayyirah Waheed

#49. You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

Yasmin Mogahed

#50. And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

Grant Morrison

#51. There seems to be such an insecurity with a lot of films. When they're made, you have to pack every moment to feel something and use the music in that way. That's something I just naturally don't feel.

Stuart A. Staples

#52. Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

Ray Brown

#53. While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.

Queen Latifah

#54. I want to know what passion is," she heard him saying. "I want to feel something strongly.

Aldous Huxley

#55. it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?" He

Zadie Smith

#56. There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.

Cassandra Clare

#57. Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.

John Piper

#58. How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself.

Kristin Cashore

#59. I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

Will Self

#60. Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#61. When I drove home, I burned myself just to feel something. I'm just so lost right now, and I feel like I'm being hit with wave after wave of sadness. It feels like a struggle to even think about tomorrow.

Jason E. Hodges

#62. When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.

Tom Platz

#63. The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness.
Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

Jennifer Donnelly

#64. I need to kiss you," he says, and it's the smartest thing he's said all day. "Please." ... His lips are just out of reach. "I need to know if I can feel anything. I want to feel something.

Karina Halle

#65. Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

Jack Donovan

#66. We have to understand that to rejoice is to do something, not to feel something (p. 44).

Hayley DiMarco

#67. My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.

Rayvon Owen

#68. I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

Pina Bausch

#69. That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.

Quentin Dupieux

#70. She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

Amy Zhang

#71. I was hoping to feel something when I saw her. She was my incubating uterus and birthday party thrower for the last seventeen years. I half expected a rush of warmth or memories, some familiarity. I flinch away from the stranger in front of me.

Colleen Hoover

#72. Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Joe Hill

#73. I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself ... I just need to feel something A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Libba Bray

#74. Blaine, the scariest part about love isn't love itself. It's letting go and plunging into the unknown. It's trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It's allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you

S.L. Jennings

#75. She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Liane Moriarty

#76. Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.

Scott Hicks

#77. Because I want to feel something other than this emotional crap

Melina Marchetta

#78. I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Iris Dement

#79. The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Ayn Rand

#80. I want people to FEEL something ... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.

Tove Lo

#81. the only way to feel something that you haven't seen in real life is through art.

Joe Hart

#82. I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

Ruba Nadda

#83. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.

Paula Hawkins

#84. I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

Angel Olsen

#85. Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

Ambrose Bierce

#86. ... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

L.M. Montgomery

#87. But the one thing that totally drew me in was his eyes. They were green but it wasn't the color that I was fascinated by, but something inside them made me feel like I didn't want to look away.
Something seemed to be pulling me toward
him.

Jennifer Whitfield

#88. You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel.

Shey Stahl

#89. Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Agnes Obel

#90. I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

Matthew McConaughey

#91. I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.

Lee Krasner

#92. If you walk by something that I've done and you like it then I don't think I did what I was supposed to do. It should hit, it should either make you feel uncomfortable, or it should make you feel great, as long as it makes you feel something.

Jason Shawn Alexander

#93. Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Queen Latifah

#94. I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

William Golding

#95. I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

Dan Hill

#96. You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

C.K. Kelly Martin

#97. I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

Chris Stapleton

#98. Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

Sasha Grey

#99. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#100. Uh, I feel like there's a Jessica Jones tip somewhere in here about Hollywood and using looks and fame and skintight costume to your advantage or something, buuuuut I'm just gonna skip it.

Kelly Thompson