I Quotes
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“I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.”
“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.”
Source: Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition
“I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman.”
Source: His Name is Moonlight
“I felt empty a lot and I sometimes had a sense—and I know this sounds strange—that I really had no existence as my own person, that I could disappear and no one would notice or remember that I had ever existed. It is a terrifying thing to live with. I kept myself busy to avoid that feeling, because somehow being busy made me feel less empty.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“I felt euphorically twisted. I turned him over, so he lay on his stomach, and I drank his blood, licking and sucking where the knife protruded out of his neck. I closed my eyes, trying to get inside his mind through his blood as he died and his spirit transcended not to heaven, but to hell.”
Source: My Unbeating Heart
“I felt everything and nothing.
Should I feel everything or nothing? This was not my child. This was a client. A client I had known for ten years and watched grow up from a young girl to a young woman.
She was just a client.
But some clients are not just clients. Some connect more. Some connect less.”
“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”
“I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing.”
“I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid.”
“I felt experienced without feeling that I, personally, had been through anything.”
Source: The Dud Avocado
“I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.”
“I felt far more Christlike when I stopped calling myself a Christian.”
Source: Comedy Sex God
“I felt... felt like they had let in a wolf.
A wraith.
I had become too big for these rooms, for this fragile mortal life, too stained and wild and... powerful.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.”
“I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?”
“I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.”
“I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life”
“I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."”
“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
“I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.”
Source: Tempo Change
“I felt for the first time that the library belonged here. The house was reclaiming its spirit, and the library, which had stood aloof and apart for so many years, was turning back into what it was always meant to be: the heart of this home.”
Source: Delicious!
“I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”
“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.”
“I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.”
“I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.”
“I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!”
“I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.”
“I felt good. I usually had a window of optimism after I bathed, which wore off by the time I was dry again. But for just then, I was washed. I was hungry in a clean right way I hadn't found in some time.”
Source: Marilou Is Everywhere
“I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.”
“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”
“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for his suffering that surely clawed at his daily routines, always active and busy, but he rarely verbalized complaints while courageously challenging his archenemy. He met pain and physical decline with 600-calorie workouts; he discarded anxieties somewhere along innumerable running trails; he faced death by running through life at full stride.”
Source: Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
“I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!”
“I felt guilty because I survived.”
“I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in my room, though, I came to think of it this way: two and a half years have gone by since it happened, and Kizuki is still seventeen years old. Not that this means my memory of him has faded. The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new. What I want to say is this: I'm going to turn twenty soon. Part of what Kizuki and I shared when we were sixteen and seventeen has already vanished, and no amount of crying is going to bring that back. I can't explain it any better than this, but I think that you can probably understand what I felt and what I am trying to say.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I felt heavy, guilty, as though I’d had an affair with Freedom and surely he’d note the scent of it on my skin, the lust for it in my eyes.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.”
Source: The Memory Palace
“i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
Source: The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)
“I felt her.
Before the wind shifted.
Before the stars blinked.
Before the Island hummed,
its gold-threaded scream.
I felt her
like a splinter under the nail.
I tasted her shadow—
sawdust, regret,
and something that should have stayed dead.
Like a memory I'd buried deep—
and pissed on for good measure.”
Source: Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse
“I felt her sigh, and when she breathed her sadness out, I breathed it in.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.”
“I felt him before he appeared, a spark of star-kissed joy flaring through me right as Rhys stepped out of the air itself. "Well?"
Cassian hopped off the boulder, extending a hand to help me down. "You're not going to like his asking price."
Rhys held out both hands to winnow us back to Velaris. "If he wants the fancy dinner plates, he can have them."
Neither Cassian nor I could muster a laugh as we both reached for Rhys's outstretched hands. "You better bring your bargaining skills tonight," was all Cassian muttered to my mate before we vanished into shadow.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.”
“I felt his eyes devour me as I moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered through me. A kiss would've been less intimate.”
“I felt his forehead against mine, another swipe of his thumb to wipe the wetness away and I heard him whisper, "Baby, I can't keep up.”
Source: Motorcycle Man
“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”
Source: Full of life
“I felt his lips travel from my forehead, whispering something against my eyelids, my cheeks, my nose. His thumbs stroked the length of my jaw, but even they stilled as I pulled back and turned away from him. [...]
“I don’t want to lose you.”
He made a noise of frustration, his eyes clear and bright as he spoke. “Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
“I felt his pain as my own and I wanted to touch him, feel him, reach inside his fractured heart and pull out all of the love he buried inside. I wanted to kiss every inch of his skin. I wanted to feel his brokenness against mine, like if we held each other hard enough something within each of us would finally heal.”
Source: Where You'll Land