feeling Quotes

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:knowledge feeling poetry

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:experience feeling

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

topic:belief feeling sight

“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

topic:feeling

“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:feeling

“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:action feeling

“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:feeling

“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:understanding man feeling

“Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love feeling

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

topic:love happiness feeling

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