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“You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”

People Ifs World Ideas Feelings Felt Sides Wonder Worry Standing Always Believe Misplaced

Author:Jay McInerney

“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.”

World Way Want Kind War Sometimes Shows Feelings Wanted Sides Sadness News Disaster Working It Poetic Melancholy Followers Cinematic Avid

Author:Alexander McQueen

“We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.”

Feelings Sex Sides Emotional Separation

Author:Natalie Portman

“Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.”

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

People Knows Feels Should Mind Stories Feelings Happens Would Be Able Sides Emotion Needed Capable Sitting Concerned Tables Oneself Intellect Noble Affected Colossal

Author:John Ruskin

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.”

Feels Mind Humans May Hard Feelings Beautiful Strong Sides Accepting Wall Terrible Connections Construction Reciprocity One Sided Strong Connection

Author:Alan Lightman

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

“Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.”

Ends Feelings Sides Bigger Arrogance Insecurity Flip

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.”

Giving Feels Feelings Motivation Energy Force Sides Loneliness Angry Surrender Damn Uncomfortable Allowing Reach Out Numbing Uncomfortable Feeling

Author:Ashley Judd

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.”

Feelings Sides Modern Rose Sympathy Coal Martyr Persecuted

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin