“Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.”— Joan Bauer, amazon.com
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“I feel a lot of things. I don’t know anything. I am scared. Sometimes I am filled with joy. I am worried about the world. I am just trying to be a person.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”— Louis C.K., amazon.com
“We don’t ever have to be ashamed of feelings, of tears, for feelings are the rain upon the earth’s blinding dust: our own hard egotistic hearts.”— Kathy Acker, amazon.com
“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise.”— Katherine Mansfield, goodreads.com
“Pretending to feel something you don’t can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”— Stacey Kade, amazon.com
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it is.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.”— Alice Miller, amazon.com
“I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.”— Audrey Hepburn, nytimes.com
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”— Jack Gilbert, amazon.com