5,454 Quotes About Feelings

Feelings are real. They often become one’s reality. But they are not always based on truth.

I knowYour heart is dividedIn a thousand piecesOf romance;I wishI could be one of themBut I am not like the others;My love for you is trueEven if I am notIn your point of view

We can't buy into the lie that we are powerless over our feelings.

Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.

The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will.

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

I prefer to longFor an enchantressTo heal meInstead of a rocky elixirFor this gives meThe pursuit of lifeIn magical emotions

The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

No one is freer than someone who couldn’t care less about how he or she feels.