best quotations about
Feelings |
and Emotions
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Quotations
 | Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 16 likes |
 | Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 13 likes |
 | Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
 | A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 5 likes |
 | Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 5 likes |
 | Art consists in making others feel what we feel. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 4 likes |
 | In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (The Cave, 2000) 4 likes |
 | Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and that to those we obey without knowing it. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, “he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.” — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
 | I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 3 likes |
 | You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 3 likes |
 | Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? — R. D. Blackmore, 1825-1900, English novelist 3 likes |
 | It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
 | God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | When it comes to feelings, anything that can be measured has absolutely no value. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. |
 | One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings. |
 | The deepest way to feel something is to suffer from it. |
 | Life is simply what out feelings do to us. |
 | I speak to the heart more than to the ear. This is what explains my success. Because everyone has a heart, and not everyone has an ear. |
 | Our emotions are in our words like stuffed birds. |
| The real strength of style is in the feeling. |
 | I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word “love” frightens me. |
 | I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. |
 | I don’t know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely. |
 | Women prefer feelings over logic. |
 | The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain. |
 | What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
| We can actually say nothing else about our emotions than: in the beginning there was ambivalence. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
 | The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
Quotes in Verse
 | I have something transparent and inexplicable to say Like a bird song in time of war. |
 | Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final. |
Movie Quotes
 | I can never have a real conversation with you. You never have ideas, only feelings. That's not true. There are ideas in feelings. — from the film Pierrot le Fou (1965) 4 likes |
