Feelings Quotes - Page 30

• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Order

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• Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Natural, Natural Feelings

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• Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Art, Simple

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• Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Two, Together

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Age, Gold

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• Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Saint, Hierarchy

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• Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Stupidity, Noble

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• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ignorant, Pieces, Shade

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• One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Action, Illusion

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• Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Stronger, Virtue

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• miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

  Rose Macaulay

  Missing, May, Mass

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Country, Nature, Animal

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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• Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God." Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Beautiful, Loyalty, Roots

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hands, World, Lasts

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Vanity, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Joy, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Delight, Agonizing, Letters

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• God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

  Frederick William Robertson

  God, Imagination, Heaven

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.231

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• As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or speech, so, as far as we can know, divinity and humanity act together in the thought and heart and act of the one Christ.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Heart, Soul And Body, Voice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 56), 1895.

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• Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
  Feeling than song.

  George MacDonald

  Song, Heart, Brain

  George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.117

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• Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Friendship, Manners

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• I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Spring, Religion

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

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• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Life, Achievement, Quality

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Degrees, Phrases

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.326

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• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Indulge In

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