Quotes on Feelings

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.