Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Numbness, Lust, Feelings

• I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Gossip, Feelings, Usual

• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

• A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Feelings, Widows

  "Joyce Carol Oates: 'I had a dream about a woman whose make-up was dried and cracking, she made a fool of herself'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

• Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Strong, Feelings

• After love a formal feeling comes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Feelings, Formal

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