Feelings Quotes - Page 29

• What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Imagination, People

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Decision, Would Be, World

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• The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

  Willa Cather

  Sincerity, Finest, Reader

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• The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Light, Soul, Contentment

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

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• I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Butterfly, Fighting, Pride

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.145

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Unity, Enthusiasm, Sentiments

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Women, United States, Source

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

  Cesare Pavese

  Pain, Men, Charity

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  T. E. Hulme

  Space, Desire, Quality

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Memories, Spring, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.40

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• The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Brother, Father, Essence

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• To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Would Be, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.386

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Littles, Strange, Language

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stories, Written, Finished

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Shadow

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

  Emily Dickinson

  Pockets, Safe, Mercy

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

  Joan Rivers

  Age, Coats, Fool

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• It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

  Ann Landers

  People, Irony, Human Nature

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Hypocrisy, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.44

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• High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

  Lana Del Rey

  High Heels, Alive, Heels

  Song: Summertime Sadness, Album: Born 2 Die, 2012

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• Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Compassion, Curiosity, Terror

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Charm, Certainty

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

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