But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out. . . do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.
I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Did he only wear a shirt during class? Oh my God, he seriously lived across the hall. Jacob was going to flip. . . and probably move in. That would be fun. I really liked Jacob, but I had a feeling he'd borrow my clothes.
He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you. " A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?
Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again
If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.
There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.
There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.
Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.