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“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.” George Orwell, 1984
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink;” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.” George Orwell, 1984
“Do anything rather than marry without affection.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“In a word, suppressing feelings in order to live to a ripe old age, or dying young by accepting the martyrdom of passion, that is our destiny.” Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass’s Skin
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“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, Tender Is the Night
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'” Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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