Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music...

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.

Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.

The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

My stepfather, John O’Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn’t try to fix me. One...

It’s not sissy to show your feeling.

And I don’t believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable – they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Living is not enough; it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you–these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

You care so much for that special person because it feels like that person is part of you.

Please don’t give me words; give me a hug. Don’t tell me that I’m holding up so well; break down with me and admit our shared wretchedness. Don’t feign some bright mountaintop; walk with me...

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the...

Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for...

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

As a devil’s advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.

God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort who lets no sigh escape him. Of His great humility He chose to be incarnate in a man...

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he...

If we only say what we feel, then we merely dwell in that which keeps us zeal.

He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he’d heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.

That was one of the saddest things about people–their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Milyen érdekes, hogy az ember oly könnyen kiönti a szívét egy darab papírnak, miközben szemtől szemben megszólalni sem mer.

How did it make you feel?

Pregúntate qué sientes y qué te niegas a sentir.

I had some strong feelings that she was still out there.

What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.

runner” finds themselves in a no-brain situation. They are faced with the choice of living in pain from the separation from the twin soul, or returning and facing that deep love, working through their fears...

A house doesn’t become a home until love moves in.

I’m thinking the reason I’ve been so quiet all those years is only because Brian wasn’t around yet for me to tell everything to.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?’ I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don’t know what I...

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific–chair, eye, stone–but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In...

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you’re the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you’re a raving lunatic.

Sure I eat my feelings, but I save the emotional roller coaster for dessert

When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There’s something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with...

The paradise in women is not the v-shape manipulation between their legs, or the two lovely bombs, set on their bosom that can blast any strong, holy spirit filled individual, but that part of her...

I Used to think that I knew everything, I was alone. My heart was empty, a single soul experience of life. When I discovered in a pair of eyes, a light reflection of mine, I...

And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It’s a feeling like falling.

You’re not me. You can’t feel like I feel.””I can feel.””No you can’t. You just choose not to feel or something and everything’s fine.””It’s not fine. It’s just not so bad.

…you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care…

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron’s dipping shoulder, and her eyes grew bright. I knew then how hard it had been to keep,...

When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.

Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

It’s helped young adolescents, especially males, overcome feelings of awkwardness around members of the opposite sex.

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?

I don’t matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don’t matter. Stupid, right?””No,” he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. “It’s how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You’ve...