“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You can never guide your heart enough. It will feel. It will break.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Have you ever felt like you could cry because you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?”— Kaye Gibbons, amazon.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, 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
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.”— Olive Schreiner, amazon.com
“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.”— Kuba Wojewódzki, goodreads.com
“A woman, or man who speaks her truth and isn’t afraid of being ‘soft’ is courageous. Vulnerability takes back bone.”— Janne Robinson, merakiii.com
“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are many things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling… knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come…”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I want a soulmate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow….I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just…”— Henry Rollins, goodreads.com