“Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If I were honest, I’d say it only sort of gets better. That there’s always this part of you that got carved out. It’s a physical thing, I swear to God, and it’s the part that swells right before you cry. Eventually you stop hoping and start to fill it up with memories.”— Kathleen Hale, amazon.com
“Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”— Joyce Brothers, brainyquote.com
“People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.”— Keri Hilson, twitter.com
“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”— Sydney J. Harris, goodreads.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "Pathetic Fallacy.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.”— Joan Walsh Anglund, amazon.com
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Weird how you can confuse two feelings so different. Cold and hot. Pain and love.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”— Richard Adams, amazon.com
“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t...My dear, I don’t give a damn.”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com