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The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
— Andy Stanley, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You
I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.
— Maya Banks, Hidden Away
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
— Renata Adler, Speedboat
Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.
— Amy Harmon, A Different Blue
Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm.
— Francis de Sales
And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.
— Lora Leigh, Forbidden Pleasure
I spoke a word in anger To one who was my friend, Like a knife it cut him deeply, A wound that was hard to mend. That word, so thoughtlessly uttered, I would we could both forget, But its echo lives and memory gives The recollection yet. How many hearts are broken, How many friends are lost By some unkind word spoken Before we count the cost! But a word or deed of kindness Will repay a hundredfold. For it echoes again in the hearts of men And carries a joy untold.
— C.A. Lufburrow
Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
I can’t hold my anger when you smile.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
That was the main thing wrong with Mrs. Kamal. She spent such an extraordinary amount of mental energy feeling irritated that it was impossible not to feel irritated in turn. It was oxygen to her, this low-grade dissatisfaction, shading into anger; this sense that things weren't being done correctly, that everything from the traffic noise at night to the temperature of the hot water in the morning to the progress of Mohammed's potty training to the fact that Fatima wasn't being taught to read Urdu, only English, to the fact that Rohinka served only two dishes at dinner the night of her arrival to the cost of the car insurance for the VW Sharan to the fact that Shahid didn't have a 'proper job' and seemed to have no intention of getting one, let alone a wife, to the unfriendliness of London, the fact that it was an 'impossible city,' to the ostentatious way she complained about missing Lahore, especially at dinner time, giving meaningful, sad, reproachful looks at the food Rohinka had cooked.
— John Lanchester, Capital
Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed?
— H. Raven Rose, Caffè Latte
Let them express their anger and hatred
—  listen to them and smile.
My Son,” Aegis stopped him in one of his tantrums. “Anger and rage are powerful. For you they are strength. They will make you stronger than many men, faster than your own horse, and they will show you things beyond your world. But you must control them. You must always be their leader. If ever, even for a moment, you let anger out of your control, it will rule you and betray you to those who would harm you.
— Ben Tousey, Children of the Night
When did you grow a back bone?" Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little.Kendall wasn't appeased "I borrowed Jory's
— Gabrielle Evans, Faith, Trust, and Stardust
God picked me to be his punching bag...so who am I suposed to pray to for mercy?
— S.L.J. Shortt
Don't ever cancel my call again! I told you I would talk to you, you should have waited..."Shit. Shit. Shit."Mr. Edge, it is 5pm, I assumed my working day was done and I cancelled the phone call by accident, this phone is new, still working it out" I made it up as I went along and was surprised by my ability to lie on my feet."Melissa, don't play stupid. Get your arse back here or I will hunt it down and drag it back" He ordered and made me hold my breath
— Mercy Cortez, Jagged Edge
The four men were in the kitchen laughing over breakfast when the door slammed open with such force that it knocked a picture off the wall. In unison, they jumped to their feet, not knowing what had hit them. “What?! It wasn’t enough for you to shoot me and kidnap me, so you had to go and butcher my hair? IS THAT IT?” she yelled at the top of her lungs.
— Debra Trueman, Back on Solid Ground
Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Just by breathing deeply on your anger, you will calm it. You are being mindful of your anger, not suppressing it...touching it with the energy of mindfulness. You are not denying it at all. When I speak about this to psychotherapists, I have some difficulty. When I say that anger makes us suffer, they take it to mean that anger is something negative to be removed. But I always say that anger is an organic thing, like love. Anger can become love. Our compost can become a rose. If we know how to take care of our compost...Anger is the same. It can be negative when we do not know how to handle it, but if we know how to handle our anger, it can be very positive. We do not need to throw anything away," (50).
— Thich Nhat Hanh, For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life
When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
— Christopher Pike, Witch
Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.
— Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan
Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.
— Julie-Anne
Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.
— Cyndi Lee
She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood".
— Marjorie Celona, Y
Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casiusoh i do,I'm just so pissed i had extra left over - Jace
— D.D. Barant, Death Blows
She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.
— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, He Forgot to Say Goodbye
one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
— H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there? How many fathers who humiliate their children? How many morons whose breath stinks like rotten meat but who refuse to do anything about it? How many hopeless cases who go on complaining all their lives about the non-existent injustices they’ve had to suffer? Look around you, I said. How many of your classmates would you be pleased not to see return to their desks tomorrow morning? Think about that one family member of your own family, that irritating uncle with his pointless, horseshit stories at birthday parties, that ugly cousin who mistreats his cat. Think about how relieved you would be - and not only you, but virtually the entire family - if that uncle or cousin would step on a landmine or be hit by a five-hundred-pounder dropped from a high altitude. If that member of the family were to be wiped off the face of the earth. And now think about all those millions of victims of all the wars there have been in the past - I never specifically mentioned the Second World War, I used it as an example because it’s the one that most appeals to their imaginations - and think about the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of victims who we need to have around like we need a hole in the head. Even from a purely statistical standpoint, it’s impossible that all those victims were good people, whatever kind of people that may be. The injustice is found more in the fact that the assholes are also put on the list of innocent victims. That their names are also chiselled into the war memorials.
— Herman Koch, The Dinner
Anytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids to free herself up for her Internet boyfriend, the question I always ask is not, like every other tongue-clucking pundit in the country, how could this have happened? but why doesn't this happen every day?
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in the works of others. He defines his own faith by a passionate anger against Gide the Luciferian. Reading his 'memories' is like meeting a man on a train who says, 'Don't look at me; that's misleading. If you want to know what I'm like, wait until we're in a tunnel, and then study my reflection in the window.' You wait, and look, and catch a face against a shifting background of sooty walls, cables, and sudden brickwork. The transparent shape flickers and jumps, always a few feet away. You become accustomed to its existence, you move with its movements; and though you know its presence is conditional, you feel it to be permanent. Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.
— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)
— Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour
Anger had arrived and it was riding a big furious don't-fuck-with-me horse.
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
A lady never shows her anger, she channels it to further her ends.
— Erik Buchanan, Cold Magics
Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow
— Tambré Bryant
All this. They have all this, and what do we get? Walls and tickets and concrete and stink. Rations and hopelessness and rage. I hate them,” she said, the malice in her words like the lingering taste of a bad kiss.
— Anna  Silver, Otherborn
Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.
— Shannon L. Alder
People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.
— Shannon L. Alder
But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.
— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reacyhed out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received
— Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
— Ally Condie, Crossed
When angry, count to Zen.
— Leonard Scheff
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you off."The demon raised his brow. "Trust that shit, mancy.
— Jaye Wells, Blue-Blooded Vamp
But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.
— Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen
Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
I can't go on like this
— Alex Flinn, Breathing Underwater
Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it's the only thing to keep you steady and stop you biting back.
— Jay Woodman
Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.
— Regena Thomashauer
It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
— Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow
I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
— Ben Howard
It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.
— Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood
Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.
— David Bowick, How to Disappear Completely
A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. “If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?” Of course it stays with the giver.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town.
— Theric Jepson, Byuck
How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers.
— Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 2: Bonds of Fear
Use the fear
—  feed the anger.
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter.
— Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger
When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.
— Glenn Beck, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life
I will see my father in every anger.
— Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.
— Arundhati Roy
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon
— David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
— Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so long that is was perfectly smooth and polished; sometimes it was thin and sharp like a blade that could slice through anything; sometimes it had the form of a star, radiating his hatred in all directions, leaving him numb and empty inside.
— Laila Lalami, Secret Son
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
— Aristotle
A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine
— Amber Koneval, Drunk Dialing the Divine
Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.
— Bill George Peter Sims
...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.
— Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
— Edward L. Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Whenever you are angry shut your mouth. So that you can save yourself from loosing the beloved ones.
— Semere Sahlemariam
The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)
— Jay Payleitner, 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad: What Fathers Can Do to Make a Lifelong Difference
No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,
— Tama Kieves, Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your life's work
I’m not staying Archer, I can’t trust you not to hurt me again if it serves whatever purposes you decide to come up with that day. I want nothing more to do with you…with any of you. I’m done with vampires. You all have done nothing but bring me pain since I met you.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday
— Leigh Byrne
I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.
— J.L. McCoy, Blood of the Son
[On Anger][T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits of anger and strife, has its roots in the physical constitution, and is one among the sins of the flesh.[of the spirit . . .][T]he doing our will rather than His. In relation to our fellow-men it shows itself in envy, hatred, and want of love, cold neglect or harsh judging of others.[of fear . . .]The fear of God need never hinder the faith in Him. And true faith will never hinder the practical work of cleansing.
— Andrew Murray, Holy in Christ
Gratitude takes less energy than anger.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
— Stephen King, Misery
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.
— Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.
— Anthony Liccione
The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?
— Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
To be angry implies you care
— Miguel Syjuco
Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor."Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.
— Kim Harrison, A Perfect Blood
No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
— A Gentlemen
When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way
— Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll
Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
But it always came back to anger.
— Cecilia Gray, Fall For You
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
— Miguel Syjuco
When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood, in the back of her mouth. It grew down into her stomach, where it knotted her intestines. It made her arms stiffen and her shoulders lock. It pushed against her ribs until she felt they would snap like sticks.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
— Helen Keller
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
— Marilyn Monroe
The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
— Paulo Coelho
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
— Greta Garbo
We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”“Already crazy about you, Sage.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
— Oscar Wilde
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person...Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon...But as the sand's Kazekage.
— Masashi Kishimoto
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.
— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
— Milan Kundera, Identity
To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought, when they aren't genuine.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .”He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
She was tired of being the one who cried.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.
— Paula Stokes, Liars, Inc.
What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.I do. But I like to hear you say it.Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.
— Joss Whedon
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.
— Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow
Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
— Veronica Roth
Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
— Meg Cabot, Princess in Love
I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.
— Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
— John Wooden
But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?
— R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
Please don't give me words
—  give me a hug. Don't tell me that I'm holding up so well
He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard that might be. He wanted to to make her hear his words: that he couldn't imagine a lofe without her,that his feelings for her were real. But most of all, he wanted to reassure himself that she felt the same way about him.
— Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels,
— Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free
What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Stop worrying about someone else's feelings for once and worry about your grade.
— Kasie West, The Fill-In Boyfriend
Whoever makes you feelthat deeply and that intensely,deserves to know how they’veimpacted you.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
Want to talk about it?" I asked gently.He smirked at me. "I appreciate the offer, but I'm a guy. We don't do that." My nose scrunched up in confusion. "We don't discuss our feelings.""That's a relief; I don't want to talk about it either.
— Lani Woodland, Intrinsical
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.
— Alice  Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
— Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
— John Marsden, The Dead of Night
Everything was okay today, but I am not feeling okay. I think that when the things you like go away, you die a little bit inside, and I think that it takes a long time for you to feel okay again.
— Abraham M. Alghanem, Summer and Autumn
The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
— Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
No one knows how another person feels in private.
— Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you 
— Dan Wells, I Don't Want to Kill You
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
— David Borenstein
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me".She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it.""And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.
— Holly Black, White Cat
Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
— Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.
— Jeffrey R. Anderson, The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
— Nikki Giovanni
you mean machines are like humans?"I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It’s as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can’t get you out.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.
— S.A.R.K., Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
But are the twin souls destined to be together? Synchronicity is at work here to bring the two back together again. How entrancing to find the same magical alchemy still at work, just as it was at the first meeting – a recognition of a deep rooted love so entrenched and so accepted, it could only have been forged in other lifetimes together. And probably that is what love at first sight is, recognition of an ancient love. 
— Chimnese Davids, My Unrequited Love Letters
From the cradle to the grave, all I want is you.
— Emma Bryienstein
The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.
— Shaeri Richards, Dancing with Your Dragon: The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me
—  only the haters seem alive.
I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.Missing you, thinking of you, like a friendly lonely thin tiger smelling the slip of a season into a new season.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
If we are always pushing away from feelings that we condemn as wrong, painful, or ugly, we are also pushing away from the very energy that can bring us incredible joy and ecstasy.
— Shaeri Richards, Dancing with Your Dragon: The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self
You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.
— Brent Runyon, The Burn Journals
A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.""I can feel.""No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.""It's not fine. It's just not so bad.
— John Fowles, The Magus
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
You can't go around feeling too much.
— Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles
We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
What good were real feelings anyway?
— Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does.
— Judith-Victoria Douglas, Ariel's Cottage
When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.
— Paul Berman
I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
— Milan Kundera, Encounter
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't yet understand it, but I felt it.
— Elizabeth Bard, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
The moment you start to think you understand love is the moment you don’t feel it anymore.
— Ana Kostovska
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
— Warren Farrell
It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.
— Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.
— Chetan Bhagat
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common.Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety.
— Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm
Your feelings and emotions are your strongest indicator if your life is moving in a purposeful direction or not, so listen closely to how you feel
— Rebecca Rosen, Awaken the Spirit Within: 10 Steps to Ignite Your Life and Fulfill Your Divine Purpose
She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
— Ron Rash, Serena
Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
— Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.
— Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.
— Phillip Cary, Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do
Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly.Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.
— Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?
— Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
What we feel is a choice.
— Piyush Shrivastav
When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry?
— C.J. Heck
Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.
— Roseanna M. White, A Stray Drop of Blood
The moment when you dream of someone deeply at night and in the morning you see that person staring and smiling at you.For me there is no word to express that feeling.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame
— Sam Selvon
One day you’re going to see her holding hands with someone who took your chance. She won’t even notice you because she’s too busy laughing with the stupid jokes he makes. And it will burn your heart seeing that beautiful smile on her face and realizing that you’re not the reason anymore. And then it will hit you: it was her, it was always her.
— Elisabeth Van den Abeele
Oh my gosh, he smells good, like some exotic but comforting spice, nutmeg or cardamom. Slowly Damian lowers his head to mine and I think my chest might explode, my heart is tap-dancing so qui
— Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World