184 quotes found
“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”
“The Almost Forgotten Human Language is ‘Feeling.”
“The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come f...”
“Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.”
“We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.”
“I came to find you last night," Lena says more quietly. "When I knew there was going to be a raid...I snuck out. I was there when—when the regulators came. I barely made it out. Alex helped me. We ...”
“Listen to your heart, not your head.”
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it wa...”
“Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.”
“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”
“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.”
“no matter how u run away, no matter how can u pretend, no matter how scared u are there is gona be the sense u have missed something, fallen heart feeling u mixed with in the moments u should live,...”
“He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth at the foot of the oak tree. He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to f...”
“If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?”
“1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a wise man, your father. What else does he say?’‘That the more you try to hide from the truth, the...”
“Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well?”
“...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.”
“When you realize that the feeling you have — is — the response you choose, you are free in that moment.”
“My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
“Are you okay?”She looked up, her eyes glistening. “I just . . . I . . .”“Hey.” He stood up and rounded the picnic table, sitting next to her on the bench. He wrapped hisarm around her, the feeling ...”
