feelings Quotes

“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

topic:heart feelings

“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:truth knowledge feelings consciousness

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:pain feelings

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

topic:hiding feelings

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:feelings opinion

“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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