Feelings are a powerful part of the human experience, shaping how we perceive the world and connect with others. Whether you're seeking comfort, motivation, or a deeper understanding of your emotions, inspiring quotes can provide meaningful insight and encouragement. Explore this carefully selected collection of 39 quotes about feelings that capture the complexity and beauty of our emotional lives.
1. “Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.” - Hillary Frank
2. “we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ” - Brennan Manning
3. “Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” - Fred Rogers
4. “The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.” - Margaret Peterson Haddix
5. “I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.” - Albert Camus
6. “Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox. 'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter” - Dorothy L. Sayers
7. “rindu adalah badai yang mengkaramkan perahu hingga tiada yang terapung di lautan hati selain dia yang dirindu” - Riza Rahmi
8. “"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.” - John Wooden
9. “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. “(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.” - Thomas Carlyle
11. “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.” - Chuck Klosterman
12. “The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.” - Shaeri Richards
13. “Oh my gosh, he smells good, like some exotic but comforting spice, nutmeg or cardamom. Slowly Damian lowers his head to mine and I think my chest might explode, my heart is tap-dancing so quickly. He's going to kiss me. I've imagined this and now it's really happening, I am like a block of wood. I can't move. I can't breathe. I close my eyes as the lightest feather of a breath , then lips, brushing over my lips. His breath is sweet and the taste of coffee barely lingers in his mouth. I feel as though my whole body has turned to liquid, into a river of millions of droplets, rushing apart and then back together. "You have the softest lips," he whispers as he pulls back to look at me. "So do you," I murmur. Oh, was that a stupid thing to say? I turn my face into his jacket and breathe in his scent.” - Lisa Ann Sandell
14. “I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.” - Alysha Speer
15. “He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.” - Lauren Dane
16. “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.” - Meg Cabot
17. “I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.” - Toni Morrison
18. “..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home,...” - Ellen Sussman
19. “Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.” - Haruki Murakami
20. “I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.” - Cheryl Strayed
21. “Milyen érdekes, hogy az ember oly könnyen kiönti a szívét egy darab papírnak, miközben szemtől szemben megszólalni sem mer.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
22. “To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.” - Jeanette Winterson
23. “Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)” - Paul Tobin
24. “ When a “runner” runs, they run. But in time the “runner” finds themselves in a no-brain situation. They are faced with the choice of living in pain from the separation from the twin soul, or returning and facing that deep love, working through their fears (often unfounded) of possible rejection and reaching their own personal Eden. ” - Chimnese Davids
25. “For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.” - Rick Riordan
26. “I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.” - Freya North
27. “Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.” - Jeffrey R. Anderson
28. “At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself.” - Nema Al-Araby
29. “Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.” - Scott Spencer
30. “Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.” - Dejan Stojanovic
31. “Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.” - Dejan Stojanovic
32. “It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.” - Jodi Picoult
33. “I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.” - Colleen Hoover
34. “It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.” - Ashly Lorenzana
35. “Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.” - Isidore Isou
36. “Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.” - Benjamin Bayani
37. “Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn't even know what feelings are.” - Prateek Singh
38. “Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.” - Donna Lynn Hope
39. “Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that horrible prebinge feeling go away. The cool thing is that we are designed so that the feeling will pass through us on its own—in time. All we have to do is sit there and feel what is going on inside of us. We must experience the feelings. To help us deal with the feelings, we can call someone on our support team. We can also express the feelings by focusing on our breath or even hitting a pillow. The important thing to remember is that no matter how terrible, feelings do pass. It takes patience and trust—not food . . .” - Jenni Schaefer
