Feelings Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Feelings

Please enjoy these Feelings Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You hurt because you're alive.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed.
They still want a mother and father in the very same house;
they want places to play.
- Beverly Cleary

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings;
but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Edmund Burke

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

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.
- The Buddha

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings -
about human feelings and frailties.
- Anne Stevenson

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
- Kurt Cobain

Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt,
working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
- Arianna Huffington

All good music resembles something.
Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the
objects and feelings which motivated it.
- Jean Cocteau

We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.
- Isabelle Adjani

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to
me before I even had the ability to play music.
- John Frusciante

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners,
no matter what fork you use.
- Emily Post

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
- Charles Kingsley

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
The theme, what's behind the emotion,
the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation.
Nor is love.
Feelings are never true.
They play with their mirrors.
- Jean Baudrillard

It has been very erotic and provocative for people
to wonder about my feelings for women.
- Catherine Deneuve

I am an excitable person who only
understands life lyrically, musically,
in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
- Anais Nin

Journalism is concerned with events,
poetry with feelings.
Journalism is concerned with the look of the world,
poetry with the feel of the world.
- Archibald MacLeish

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings,
without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
- George Santayana

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself
against attack or want of conformity answer in full
to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind,
but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
- Anne Stevenson

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show,
I have such mixed feelings.
It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
- Lorna Luft

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves -
that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
- Giorgio Armani

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us.
I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and
ideas that function on many levels.
- Andy Goldsworthy

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings -
not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
- Ralph Bakshi

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find
paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
- Jonathan Lethem

All men and women have an equal need for love.
When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt,
for which we blame our partner.
- John Gray

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me.
I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't
want to have to do that again.
I was scared.
- Mariel Hemingway

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or
too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily
engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
- Anna Freud

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- William Wordsworth

It's important not to indicate.
People don't try to show their feelings,
they try to hide them.
- Robert De Niro

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
- Keith Miller

I have had time to analyze my feelings.
I am certain that they are totally neurotic,
sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
- Phil Donahue

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
- Olin Miller

With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,'
we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics,
as well as advance our own feelings.
- Sean Hannity

I'm getting those familiar feelings,
and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
- Kevin Costner

There's another way of making music,
by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
- Gavin Bryars

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,
the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
- Charles Baudelaire

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings,
and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people,
in the late war.
- Jupiter Hammon

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings
run ahead of their thinking.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against
one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
- Alice Duer Miller

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty.
To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all
the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
- Luigi Pirandello

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
- John Buchanan Robinson

I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion -
I forgive everyone, especially myself,
for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrence of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played any role
in any of the events of my life is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature,
and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- Tobias Wolff

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people
felt but they couldn't express themselves.
- Barry Mann

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored.
They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
- Judith Wright

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame.
I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate,
and that there is no shame in their feelings.
PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
- Brooke Shields

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious,
all those feelings about playing for the Jets again.
If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
- Vinny Testaverde

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
- David Herbert Lawrence

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy,
and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
- John Keats

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality,
feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her,
not projecting on them.
- Keith Miller

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie