Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Disappointment, Regret, Believe

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Feelings, Wonderful Life, Virgin Suicides

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

• Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Feelings, Emotion, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heartbroken, Two, Feelings

• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Solitude, Feelings, Way

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

• He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Block, Eye, Light

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

• At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Cat, Dark

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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