Quotes about Feelings

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. Reality dwelling in what one saw and felt, but did not talk about, one could accept a system in which things went round and round quite satisfactorily to other people, without often troubling to think about it, except as something superficially strange.

In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now?

Camilla, my dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other.

I wish I had died. I wish I had died then, with that feeling in my heart! I should have been more fit for heaven than I ever have been since.

I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.

What we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man.

Bitter love is better than sweet hate.

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.