Feelings Quotes

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. ~ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot It is in the nature of all passionate and uncontrolled emotion to prey upon and weaken the forces of reflective power, as much as it is in the nature of controlled emotion to strengthen them. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear. ~ The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle For it is the mind which creates the world about us, and, even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. ~ The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. ~ Festus by Philip James Bailey "The human heart," he murmured, "is the tomb of many feelings." ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy "You want to build before you've laid your foundations," said Mr. Paramor. "You let your feelings carry you away, Vigil." ~ The Country House by John Galsworthy "But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery I was discreet. I tried to curb my own emotions and to discourage hers. For my own part I fear that I betrayed myself, for the eye becomes more eloquent when the tongue is silent. ~ The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle