feel quotes

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

— Albert Einstein

“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. ”

— John Lennon

“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. ”

— John Lennon

“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

— Galileo Galilei

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me. I always feel that they have not said enough.”

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

— Mother Teresa

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future, and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

— Stephen King

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”

— Corliss Lamont

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

— Pablo Picasso

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

— Jane Austen

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. ”

— Winston Churchill

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”

— Sigmund Freud

“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”

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