Feelings Quotes - Page 80

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.