Quotes about Feeling

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling, the heart of the nation.

The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.

Why are you here? That's the ultimate question that you get to answer with every action, thought, and feeling. There is a calling on your life. What will be your answer? — Oprah

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.