“There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.” MenDoePlayFeelingsGriefMusicExtremesRelief Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.” PeopleWorldBookMatterFeelingsWantedImaginationSubjectsEventsGeniusDepthExtremesSurfaceOriginalityInteriorsSubject MatterRaptureThoughts And FeelingsWildnessMatchedExaltation Book:An American Childhood Source: An American Childhood
“We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.” FeelsFeelingsSufferingQualityEffectsColdExtremesHeatExcessVariance Author:Blaise Pascal