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In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.
— Rachel  Thompson, Broken Pieces
But centuries of time have not made me insensitive
— Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.
— Jude Watson, Nowhere to Run
I project myself to love and devote my time and attention to someone without a reason, so at least I can give someone the feelings of being the most special person in someone’s life.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
I will not feel, I will notfeel, untilI have to
— Norman MacCaig, The Many Days: Selected Poems
LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration!
— Madan Mohan Mahapatra
It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Mother's Eden: Does your Matthew... Well, does he make you feel as if he just handed you a handful of Stars?Eden: He make me feel as if he handed me the moon as well, Mama. Maybe the whole universe.
— Catherine Anderson, Early Dawn
It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
the sensations she was asking about were very pleasant; some of them were nothing short of delicious; but to know them one simply had to go barefoot. I could sense a mixture of envy and fearful reserve. It was time to tell her what another barefoot hiker had once told me, when I had stood, still shod, on the edge of wanting to go barefoot: "Take off your shoes.
— Richard Keith Frazine, The Barefoot Hiker
No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared
— abhishek vicky
Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.
— Katie Cotugno, How to Love
Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.
— J.A. London, Blood-Kissed Sky
Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Courtney’s emotions had always been controlled and steady, logical and levelheaded. But around Brett, it was like she was on a high-speed roller coaster with steep drops and corkscrew turns, and she never wanted to get off.
— Michelle Madow, The Secret Diamond Sisters
Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.
— Jill Telford
What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life, depends on how much you believe it to be true
— Franklin Gillette
you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky: Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggling cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold, pink, flesh, utterly cheesy in their luminosity. Gigantic puffy clouds, welcoming, forgiving, repeating infinitely across the horizon as if between mirrors; and slices of rain, pounding wet misery in the distance now, but soon on us, and in another part of the sky, a black stain, rainless.
— Maria Semple
When we find her, I'm still going to fight for her.-Emil-
— Angela Corbett, Eternal Starling
Peace, Love, and Happiness, are the priceless treasures of life.
— Ellen J. Barrier
If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about myproduct or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about itand how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feelanything. Nothing at all
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club.
— Robert Liparulo, Deadlock
You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.
— Kristina Haynes, It Looked a Lot Like Love
Ships have feelings.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.
— Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.
— Jodi Meadows, Asunder
In yet another paradox, bulimia nervosa serves as both an expression of feelings and a defense against experiencing feelings, particularly shame, anger, loneliness, sadness, envy, and guilt. A person with bulimia nervosa fear, whether consciously or unconsciously, that painful feelings would be unbearable, even annihilating".
— Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Always remember .... The people who usually hide their feelings care the most.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Hope was a fool’s emotion.
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I didn't belong in this world anymore. It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be.
— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
good people bring the good out of people
— Turcois Ominek
Love is nothing but a Pentimento", she mumbled, not sure if he could hear her. "It looks like something from the outside, whie it's something totally different from the inside. And one can only understand this after some time, when the lie on the outside peels off.
— Cameron Jace, Pentimento
You should really leave," Colton told him. "The energy I got in my heart is much stronger than anything you have seen.
— Cameron Jace, Pentimento
Our feelings and intuition are two of our greatest gifts. Too often we don't trust, rely, or act on them. ~Amanda Owen
— Amanda Owen, Born to Receive: Seven Powerful Steps Women Can Take Today to Reclaim Their Half of the Universe
A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.
— Amit Kalantri
I read what you leave in public spaces. The songs you reference. The quotes you quote. I know it’sabout me. I can feel you thinking of me. I want to tell you that I know and admit that I feel the same.But I can’t. Not yet.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.
— Corey Ann Haydu, OCD Love Story
We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
She fucking turns me inside out.""Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me.""You started it.
— Nalini Singh, Mine to Possess
Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug.
— Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter
Where does one run to escape from feelings?
— B.J. Neblett
You care so much for that special person because it feels like that person is part of you.
— Sandra Villa
Success is not about how others feel about you,its about how you feel about yourself.
— Krishna Saagar
Music is the emotions that words can not express.
— Shannon L. Alder
I was finally tired of hiding behind bravado. My family had hurt me so many times that I had started to lie about my feelings to everyone. To Sarah. To Maddie. To Ethan. And to myself. I was like an iceberg, with ninety percent of my real feelings submerged so no one would know how vulnerable I truly felt. I lied so much, and so often, that even I didn’t know my true feelings anymore.
— T.B. Markinson, A Woman Lost
Sin is the delusion of our feelings
—  while crime is the delusion of our actions.
Across the oceans, in the middle of the rivers and at the peak of mountains; nothing can ever change my feelings for you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?
— M.F. Moonzajer
In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me.
— نزار قباني
It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.
— Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon
Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The Shulamite lives by a different set of values. One of the most horrible frauds perpetrated on western couples is 'trust your feelings' or 'follow your heart.' Solomon's family must never be left to whims. A wise Shulamite does not make life decisions based on feelings, alone. She takes God's point-of-view: 'He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.' --Pr 28:26For young couples, a hard lesson to learn is: Their hearts will lie to them.pg 3
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting into my soul, like a million butterflies swirling around inside of me, like a tidal wave crashing into the shore that was my heart, flooding it completely and wiping out everything in it's path...” - Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)
— Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
— Brian Molko
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
— C.S. Lewis
... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.
— Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.
— Christian D. Larson
She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.
— Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
— Ryan Leonard
love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.
— Michael DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them
They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.
— Douglas Self
Love is not a Subject, but it has some great lessons..!
— Sarvesh Jain, The Journey of 101 Milestones
I know a person that's like none i've even met before,one that is kind,gentle and has the most beautiful heart i've ever seen.For him all the good things in the world would not suffice for he deserves so so much more...somehow the wings i saw yesterday in a picture look like the wings i can see on his angel soul ^^
— Miya13
When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.
— Paula Stokes, The Art of Lainey
If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.
— Eileen Myles, Inferno
I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
— Julianna Baggott, Pure
Please don’t tell me you know just how I feel--you don't.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
It doesn’t matter. He deserves toknow how he impacted your life
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before
Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.
— Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter
I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes me a bad writer, then I might hope to author several bad books.
— Cara Rosalie Olsen, Awakening Foster Kelly
We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.
— C.S. Lewis
Time can only rob us of the things we can touch
—  it can't rob us of the things we feel.
Don’t allow your feelings to drive the car
—  you’re bound to get in an accident!(HS/el)
One does not change a feeling by focusing on that feelings. One changes a feeling by changing one's behaviors and or one's thoughts
— Dennis Cogswell
Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I love rain. I love the sound of it falling on an umbrella, each drop that hits the cloth a soothing sound. Everything is so fresh and clean. It always feels as if each drop is helping to wash away the hurt, the pain, the dirt that life leaves behind. As if the mere act of it falling can give life a rebirth, a second chance.
— Brandi M. Polier, After Image
I'm convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to mend instantly as though never affected.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence.”Katia M. S.
— Katia M. S.
I Used to think that I knew everything, I was alone. My heart was empty, a single soul experience of life. When I discovered in a pair of eyes, a light reflection of mine, I found my mate, my match, my soul.”Katia M. S.
— Katia M. S.
It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.
— Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and painYou never know when it will end, don’t let a moment pass in vain…In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained…
— Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
I don't want to lose you, I love you, and…and that's all I've got.”As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went…different story.
— Kristan Higgins, The Best Man
Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located.
— J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
— R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver
I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.
— Tara Taylor Quinn, A Child's Wish
Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.
— Les Miserables
One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.
— Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners
Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.
— Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners
I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…
— Dan Wells, Fragments
It sucked when you cared about someone and they didn't return your feelings..
— Jaci Burton, Dare To Love
Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?
— Carter Dickson, The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.
— Debbie Macomber, The Trouble with Angels
Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.
— Carla Gipson Lizana
Don't let fear outweigh what you feel.
— Samantha Leahy
These are tears and I am crying.It is not a painful sensation, as I always thought it must be. It feels like the purest expression of feeling that it is possible to have. And the feeling mixes everything up together. Happiness. Sadness. Relief. Sorrow. Love. A mixture if things no psychiatrist ever felt. It is the most wonderful mixture in the world.
— Harry Bingham, Talking to the Dead
We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
— Ally Spina
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.
— Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
— Dan Wells, Fragments
I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.
— Nina Guilbeau
I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?""No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
Ive told you before and my feelings haven't changed. I love you Sakura. Even if I cant match up to Natsume, my feelings would not lose to his. Even if we part ways and you forget about me, I will always think of you. Even if I grow old and leave this academy, I will definitely come see you. I'm here for you, until the day you look my way, I will always... I will always wait for you, together with Natsume. And this time around, I wont let Natsume steal you away again. Next time we meet, I will be more straight forward with my feelings, so that this time around, it wont be Natsume, but me you will choose, and me you will love. I wont lose, definitely." - Ruka
— Tachibana Higuchi, 学園アリス 27 [Gakuen Alice 27]
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies
I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
I’m feeling particularly good and wicked at the moment.
— A.R. Von, The Approach
He takes my mouth with such fervor, my heart pounds harder than after I’ve just run for miles. My legs now feel like over cooked noodles.
— A.R. Von, The Approach
I wonder why when I told him that my chest still ached even though I had finally told him how I felt, he said, "So you finally realize how I've felt these past three years?" and laughed.
— Kou Yoneda, No Touching At All
We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of desolate frustration.
— Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.
— Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?""Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good.
— James Patterson, Confessions of a Murder Suspect
I don't want what my parents have. I want the couple in the park.
— Priscilla Glenn, Emancipating Andie
On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good,Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into oneAnd pressed against my heart.
— Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.
— Margaret Way, Black Ingo
Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.
— Erica Goros
He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.
— Anne Tyler
One must say
—  be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut.
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What? A man who could admit to his feelings? They really do exist!
— Jennifer Howard
I know I’m not supposed to say this,” he said. “But I think I love you more than ever.”I took his hand and tried not to think about how happy his words made me.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
It doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.
— Allen Ginsberg
He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
Music is a second language to my heart.
— Mara Arps
The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.
— Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter
Do you know how hard it is to find someone who can reciprocate your feelings?
— Yelena Black, Dance of Shadows
It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.
— Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants
I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I’d think about you and how I didn’t want us to end. It’s complicated…’Max still held her, his thumbs stroking the spot on her wrists where her pulse was thundering away. ‘Uncomplicate it then. Did you miss 
— Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
— Judy Blume, Summer Sisters
Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don’t EVER let life shut you up.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Love is not what others feel about you,,,, its what feeling you share with others.
— Swavin Joysury
Is there anything else you haven't told me?"My head spun. So much had happened and we still needed to stop a powerful magician. Death was a real possibility. I needed Valek to know how I felt."I love you"Valek wrapped me in his arms. "My love has been yours since the fire festival. If those goons had killed you, I knew then that I would never be the same. I didn't want or expect this. But I couldn't resist you.
— Maria V. Snyder
...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You don’t know how I feel about you? I try to show you how much I care about you every day. How can you not see that?
— Cardeno C., Where He Ends and I Begin
We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown.
— Caterpillar from Alice
Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.
— Donna Lynn Hope
...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.
— Orrin Woodward
It’s not a real place, not a real thing. Mom made up the Gray Space, the place of anti-art, antifeeling, the cold dark place that felt like death. It was just her zany way of describing the place she went when she felt most depressed, when making music at all became impossible.It isn’t real.
— Kate Ellison, Notes from Ghost Town
Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Everything has a limit.
— Nithyanand S
Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.
— Aneta Cruz
I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.
— John J. Stephens, The Fire Chronicle
Instructions for Dad.I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I got lonely? I promise not to scare you.I want to be buried in my butterfly dress, my lilac bra and knicker set and my black zip boots (all still in the suitcase that I packed for Sicily). I also want to wear the bracelet Adam gave me.Don't put make-up on me. It looks stupid on dead people.I do NOT want to be cremated. Cremations pollute the atmosphere with dioxins,k hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide. They also have those spooky curtains in crematoriums.I want a biodegradable willow coffin and a woodland burial. The people at the Natural Death Centre helped me pick a site not for from where we live, and they'll help you with all the arrangements.I want a native tree planted on or near my grave. I'd like an oak, but I don't mind a sweet chestnut or even a willow. I want a wooden plaque with my name on. I want wild plants and flowers growing on my grave.I want the service to be simple. Tell Zoey to bring Lauren (if she's born by then). Invite Philippa and her husband Andy (if he wants to come), also James from the hospital (though he might be busy).I don't want anyone who doesn't know my saying anything about me. THe Natural Death Centre people will stay with you, but should also stay out of it. I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things. Say I was a monster if you like, say how I made you all run around after me. If you can think of anything good, say that too! Write it down first, because apparently people often forget what they mean to say at funerals.Don't under any circumstances read that poem by Auden. It's been done to death (ha, ha) and it's too sad. Get someone to read Sonnet 12 by Shakespeare.Music- "Blackbird" by the Beatles. "Plainsong" by The Cure. "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw. "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands" by Sufian Stevens. There may not be time for all of them, but make sure you play the last one. Zoey helped me choose them and she's got them all on her iPod (it's got speakers if you need to borrow it).Afterwards, go to a pub for lunch. I've got £260 in my savings account and I really want you to use it for that. Really, I mean it-lunch is on me. Make sure you have pudding-sticky toffee, chocolate fudge cake, ice-cream sundae, something really bad for you. Get drunk too if you like (but don't scare Cal). Spend all the money.And after that, when days have gone by, keep an eye out for me. I might write on the steam in the mirror when you're having a bath, or play with the leaves on the apple tree when you're out in the garden. I might slip into a dream.Visit my grave when you can, but don't kick yourself if you can't, or if you move house and it's suddenly too far away. It looks pretty there in the summer (check out the website). You could bring a picnic and sit with me. I'd like that.OK. That's it.I love you.Tessa xxx
— Jenny Downham
I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their true feelings. And at the end of the day, that does nothing but hurt someone. The men and women of Tamaran were always taught to live by their emotions, to trust that first reaction, as it is the most pure. Cyborg argues that you need time to make the proper decision. I argue that time blurs the true intent. To Earth standards, I may appear brash and rushed. I never hide what I think. Perhaps that is why Tamaran was a target for so many invasions. Our captors may have enjoyed seeing what pain they inflicted upon us, for our tears were never hidden either.
— Geoff Johns, Teen Titans, Vol. 1: A Kid's Game
At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself.
— Nema Al-Araby
I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.
— Julie Ann Elliott-Morton
It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.
— Jane O'Connor, Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet
You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day.
— Nema Al-Araby
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home,...
— Ellen Sussman, French Lessons
...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...
— Michael Kelahan, The World's Greatest Love Letters
Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.
— Benjamin Bayani, The Nation
...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am I anyone but mea poetess longing for your touchget lost with me in my wordsas I serenade you with a forever quill.
— Chimnese Davids
There is no treasure like the human heart.
— Jocelyn  Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople
I used to hope that if I went to church long enough, all my inside weight would go away. That ain't right. Jesus may have come to take away our sins, but he left our feelings right where they've always been. I still have inside me some of what I've always had, built up over a lifetime. I just keep adding to it, everyday, like everybody else, and hope the stew gets better the more ingredients I put in.
— Todd  Johnson, The Sweet By and By
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
He took a step closer. "I don't know if I'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have this... feeling. That you'll always be there. Here." Conrad clawed at his heart and then dropped his hand.
— Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer
...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.
— Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars.The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone.“You’re . . . ,” he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. “Such a pain,” he concluded.“What?” I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one ofFang’s hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination.Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang’s arms around me now, sliding under mywings, his hands flat against my back.It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him.It was a total disaster.Gasping, I pulled back. “I, uh—,” I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking himover, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket.
— James Patterson, The Final Warning
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice cream…
— James Patterson, Max
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
— Jonatan Mårtensson
Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?
— Claire Cross, Double Trouble
You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
— F. Sionil José, The God Stealer and Other Stories
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
— Tamora Pierce, Page
I feel wonderful and sad. It's the gin.
— Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for.
— Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
When a “runner” runs, they run. But in time the “runner” finds themselves in a no-brain situation. They are faced with the choice of living in pain from the separation from the twin soul, or returning and facing that deep love, working through their fears (often unfounded) of possible rejection and reaching their own personal Eden. 
— Chimnese Davids, My Unrequited Love Letters
... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.
— Lauren Oliver
A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling.
— William Nsubuga
It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.
— Gordon Livingston, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.
— Freya North, Chances
Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.
— Umair Naeem, Drowning Shadows
Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn't even know what feelings are.
— Prateek Singh
Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn't even know what feeling is.
— Pratee Singh
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
— David D. Burns
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.
— Kelly Clarkson
I’d allowed myself to feel love –yes, love– for another person in a way I’d once sworn to myself I never would. I’d become completely vulnerable, and now I’d been torn apart with hurt and catapulted onto a path I might never have taken otherwise. I’d risked my life for an outsider. For a stranger. Worse, I had a feeling I was going to do it again.
— Kate Avery Ellison, Frost
Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
— Oprah Winfrey
I couldn't bear the thought of Alex looking at me like I was a freak. It was bad enough that the looked at me as Jack's sister.
— Sarah Alderson, Hunting Lila
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
— John Steinbeck
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
— Charles Kingsley
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
— Elizabeth Scott
Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.
— Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?
— Suzanne Collins
You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.
— Ellen Sussman, French Lessons
I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings." He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.
— Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Nothing we can do together is ever going to be embarrassing.
— Rebecca York, Crimson Moon
The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
— Ann Voskamp
It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.
— Margaret Way, Hunt the Sun
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.
— Isidore Isou
Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.
— Víctor del Árbol
Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?
— Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread
Feelings demand living space.
— Isidore Isou
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
— Voltaire
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
— George Orwell, Animal Farm
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
— Paul McCartney
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
— Charles de Gaulle
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
— George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
— Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
— Anaïs Nin
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
— George Orwell, Animal Farm
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
— Ruskin Bond