Quotes with feelings

  • You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
  • Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
  • Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
  • Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
  • Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
  • To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
  • Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
  • The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.
  • In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brigitte Bardot China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Stanley Kubrick A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Anne Stevenson A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Andy Goldsworthy A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Aldous Huxley Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William R. Alger Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Agnes Martin Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Barry Mann Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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