“Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.” IfsImportantFeelingsSpiritualLossLevelsCommunicationAccomplishDamageShockDelicateGross Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.” IfsFeelsRealFeelingsDoubtNo DoubtShockAbstractionExplosionsReal Ones Author:Jean Helion
“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.” ThinkingHeartLongFeelingsNightLiteratureSleepGriefMy HeartUniversalWake UpShockWakingAll NightAssassinationIndignationRighteous Indignation Author:Elizabeth Gaskell
“People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.” PeopleIfsFeelingsGriefSettingFamiliarBlockSettingsPostsShockAgain And AgainFrontiersGrim Author:C. S. Lewis
“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.” FeelingsTogetherFatherTermBrotherEssenceSurprisePhilosopherWitShockUnexpectedChemistryExplosionsCork Author:Edwin Percy Whipple
“Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.” ThinkingMenPersonsLongDoeHas BeensIdeasFeelingsYoungNextPartyStupidLong TimeIntellectualExpectedFavorsCleverYoung ManShockLunchPerpetualRelentlessNephewHuxleyStupid PersonClever Person Author:Elizabeth Bowen