#feelings

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. ↗

— Vicktor Alexander

#expression #feelings #legacy #life #writers

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #feelings #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#feelings #mask #life

Music is a second language to my heart. ↗

— Mara Arps

#heart #music #power-of-music #music

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poetry #nature

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. ↗

— Albert Camus

#nature

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#feelings #human-nature #nature

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceit #defamation #denial #enemy #feelings

[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. . . . This isn't to say that a young man can't hope to be seized by love. . . . But whether the sheer fury of a man's feelings accurately gauges their likely endurance is another question. The ardor will surely fade, sooner or later, and the marriage will then live or die on respect, practical compatibility, simple affection, and (these days, especially) determination. With the help of these things, something worthy of the label 'love' can last until death. But it will be a different kind of love from the kind that began the marriage. Will it be a richer love, a deeper love, a more spiritual love? Opinions vary. But it's certainly a more impressive love. ↗

— Robert Wright

#determination #evolutionary-psychology #feelings #lasting-love #love

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth. ↗

— José N. Harris

#apologize #apology #feelings #truth #vida