Feelings Quotes - Page 35

• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Memories, Spring, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.40

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Littles, Strange, Language

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stories, Written, Finished

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Shadow

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

  Ann Landers

  People, Irony, Human Nature

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

  Lana Del Rey

  High Heels, Alive, Heels

  Song: Summertime Sadness, Album: Born 2 Die, 2012

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• Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Compassion, Curiosity, Terror

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• Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Natural, Natural Feelings

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• Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Art, Simple

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Age, Gold

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• Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Saint, Hierarchy

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• One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Action, Illusion

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• Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Stronger, Virtue

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• It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Country, Nature, Animal

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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• Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God." Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Beautiful, Loyalty, Roots

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Delight, Agonizing, Letters

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• Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Friendship, Manners

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• I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Spring, Religion

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

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• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Life, Achievement, Quality

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Degrees, Phrases

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.326

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• Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Emotional, Anarchist, Forty

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, People, Empowering

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• A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

  Lois Wyse

  Children, Winning, Views

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