Feelings Quotes

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. (Anton Chekhov)
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. View quote
André Gide
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. View quote
Anton Chekhov
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. View quote
Berthe Morisot
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. View quote
John Ruskin
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. View quote
Heinrich Heine
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. (William Henry Harrison)
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. View quote
Robert E. Lee
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. View quote
Edmund Burke
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. View quote
Amy Tan
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
Jim Morrison
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. View quote
William Wordsworth
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? View quote
Confucius
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. (Charles Baudelaire)
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, But whatever its authority, It doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. View quote
Pierre Corneille
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. View quote
Kurt Cobain