feelings quotes

• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. (Robert Burton) [feelings/willpower/take/faith]
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. (George Santayana) [music/form/feelings]
• Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. (Theodore Dreiser) [words/feelings]
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. (William Wordsworth) [poetry/feelings]
• If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brnnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. (Wystan Auden) [music/human/feelings/quality]
• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. (Elizabeth Bowen) [feelings/housing]
• We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. (Bertolt Brecht) [type/theatre/feelings/human]
• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. (Charlotte Bronte) [willpower/feelings/wild/rage]
• If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. () [feelings/past/ability/present]
• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ( Confucius) [feelings/respect/men]
• Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. (Joseph Conrad) [mystic/love/feelings]
• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. (Albert Einstein) [time/relations/feelings/pride]
• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. (George Eliot) [feelings/willpower/take/faith]
• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [give/feelings]
• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [feelings/willpower/property]
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. (John Keats) [thing/help/feelings]
• Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. (Milan Kundera) [more/feelings/people]
• Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [feelings/sun/more/cold]
• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [philosophy/feelings/state/find]
• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [power/feelings/power/recoil]
• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. (Martin Luther) [conscience/feelings/more/lord]
• Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach. (Martina Navratilova) [being/feelings/housing/housing]
• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. (George Orwell) [feelings/age]
• We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. ( Ovid) [feelings]
• The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. (Rainer Maria Rilke) [willpower/feelings/willpower/willpower]
• Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. (Bertrand Russell) [pornography/feelings/sex/willpower]
• Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. (Mark Twain) [think/feelings/nation/argument]
• Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. (Mae West) [women/men/feelings]
• The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. (Oscar Wilde) [dreams//feelings/form]

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