"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Well, obviously, she feels very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she is feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and then she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings towards Harry are anyway, because he was with Cedric when he died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she is afraid she is going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly."

A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speach, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," Hermione said nastily, picking up her quill again. "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Love, is everything it's cracked up to be. Life is everything it's cracked up to be. So, all and everything you hear and know and feel about these Is true."
— Indira Reyes

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

"Look. See. Think. Understand. Feel. REACT!"
— ArtReaction.org

"Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable."
— Orson Scott Card

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyones feelings intentionally."
— Oscar Wilde

""Beautiful is felt, not seen.""
— Lise Bennett

"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
— Oscar Wilde

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question."
— Laozi

"If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated."
— Paul F. Davis

"It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless."
— Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)

"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
— Albert Einstein

"If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply."
— Judith Plaskow (Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective)

"When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. "
— Michael Jackson (Dancing the Dream)

"You remember when you were a little kid and you would look at the clouds in the sky as the sunlight bounced off them. And something that simple would make you feel a part of everything and all alone at the same time. And that feeling's got something you can never put into words so you spend your whole life chasing it; making music, taking pictures, painting... whatever, in the hope that other people will understand that sense or... feeling. As creative entities we look for signs of life outside ourselves, for a connection to... alleviate the sense of solitude. That's why we all do what we do, whether we know of it ourselves or not."
— 2D

"As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"The uncertainty of certain feelings is the best way to break them."
— Yannick Heywang

"...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it."
— Milan Kundera (Identity: A Novel)

"I've played down every feeling I've felt
And I bottled them up 'til the well ran over."
— Seether

"No one knows how another person feels in private."
— Whitney Otto (How to Make an American Quilt)

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
— Oscar Wilde

"Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices."
— Brenda Waggoner

"When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings."
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"There are days when I look into the eyes of people and I feel nothing but passion
Like if they were to take me right then and there all I would do is...flow with it.

But there are also days when I want nothign more than to fight the reasoning, fight cause and try to push it all to extremes.

Intense eyes and close heartbeats, very interesting."
— Courtney Floyd

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
— George Eliot

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
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— David Borenstein

"No amount of warmth could reach the places inside where I felt hollowed out. If someone peeled away my skin, I knew they'd see a rib cage and nothing more, just a dark empty hole where my lungs, stomach, and heart used to be."
— Jayne Pupek Tomato Girl

"The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common.
Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety."
— Wilhelm Reich (The Function of the Orgasm)

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
— Albert Einstein