Feelings Quotes - Page 38

• The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Feet, Everyday, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sweet, Women, Believe

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• The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Ideas, People, Good Man

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• After love a formal feeling comes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Formal

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• In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sports, Games, People

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• My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Regret, Complexes, Remorse

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• Feelings change facts.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Facts, Feelings Change

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• When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Wells, Persons, Knows

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.41, Northwestern University Press

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• Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Dancing, Delicacy, Danger

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• The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Future, Heart, Eye

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• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

  William Matthews

  Character, Men, Differences

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• What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Prejudice, Able, Opinion

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• Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

  Deborah Tannen

  Baseball, Men, Order

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• England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Mean, Roots, Stones

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• The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

  Susan Glaspell

  Heart, Light, Facts

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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• [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

  Harriet Martineau

  Pain, Shadow, Waste

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• We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

  Harriet Martineau

  Anxiety, Looks, Care

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• While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

  Harriet Martineau

  Strong, Years, Toil

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.118, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Eye, Brain, Important

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• Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

  Djuna Barnes

  Block, Thinking, Hair

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

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• I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

  Stella Benson

  Writing, Heart, Luxury

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• There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

  Renata Adler

  Real, Differences, Trash

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.97, New York Review of Books

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• It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Wall

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Depression, Pain, Opposites

  Alice Miller (1981). “The drama of the gifted child”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

  Alice Miller

  Family, Opportunity, Self

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