Quotes about Feelings

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed

Old man — don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Most schools don't do this job well at all. Instead, most children feel failure when they go to class. They could also hire athletics to do the job. For a few, sports do the job well. But for the less gifted, athletics makes students feel failure, too. So they hire electronic games to feel successful. And yet for many, even such games yield failure. So they hire friends who have feelings of failure, too—and engage in drugs and other things to feel successful.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The night and the stars, the dawn coming up, the barges swimming past, the sun setting.... Ah dear, she sighed, well, the sunset is very lovely too. I sometimes think that poetry isn't so much what we write as what we feel, Mr. Denham.