- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feeling Quotes
Some things are easier felt than explained.
These quotes circle around what it means to feel something and share it - technology creating more ways to connect while somehow leaving people more isolated, or a room full of strangers sinking into the same emotion during a performance. Related themes continue in Feel Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
- Deep Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020