“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.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasFeelingsFeltSidesWonderWorryStandingAlways BelieveMisplaced Author:Jay McInerney
“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.” KnowsMenWantNeedsMayMadeStillsUseDesireFeltWonderIncreaseInstrumentsRemainsPossessionLondonEvery ManFamiliarEnjoymentShopsImperfectConsumerismOverconsumption Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler
“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.” IfsLongFeltSpaceRoomsWonderFlowerSittingGardenJapanBootsBloomingHoveringBlooming FlowerDragonflies Author:Mark Tobey
“In my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you don't want to. Even now, it's very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I'm like, It's been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I'm thinking only about them?” ThinkingKnowsWantMindFirstsFeltDifficultBornHoursWonderMorningBabyTortureBack To Work Author:Jennifer Lopez
“In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?” IfsMindStillsFactsCertainFeltMemoriesExistenceWonderIndependentForgottenMoodDevicesIntensity Author:Virginia Woolf
“It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.” WayLooksLittlesI CanHardShowsKidsFeltSidesWonderManifestationOpennessLittle Kid Author:George Saunders
“love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.” LooksForceFeltLove IsCommonWonderUnderstoodEssenceDuesSubtleMetaphysicalTormentFeverSufferersIndefinable Book:Lady Audley's Secret Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.” TryingWellsHas BeensDoneFeltKnownWonderAudienceEventsBattleSpeechFemaleLaysPreparedVersionsAweShockTroopsWell KnownMonarchsFrontline Author:Cate Blanchett
“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.” MightFoundFeltSportsWonderSawsGreatnessAdventureDifficultyMovedPressesGradesIngredientsClimbingBenches Author:Peter Croft
“I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?” WritingSongFatherFeltLossWonderMiddleMonthsColdFollowingDisappearanceOld Song Author:Linn Ullmann
“I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me.” DifferentDreamRunningMovingFeltKnownWonderImpossibleParticularPlanetsWalkingSkinsClaimsMiseryAliensMoving InDevouring Author:Gordon Parks
“I`m a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.” IfsLongFeltWonderNeededBillsAccountabilitySurvivorAssaultSexual Assault Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it” PeopleIfsWayFeelsBookFeltWonderWrittenGenerationsApproachHolocaustIntimidatingMy GenerationGreat Book Author:Molly Antopol
“All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.” PeopleWritingYearsNextFeltWonderFourShouldersFour YearsBlocked Author:S. E. Hinton
“Even when I was a little boy, when I was seven, I absolutely loved Wonder Woman, and I saw her as one of the superhero greats with Superman and Batman, and I think it's because she was her own thing. She always felt like the real deal the same way that Superman and Batman did. Whereas the She-Hulks and Spider-Women and all that kind of thing felt like a continuation of a concept.” ThinkingWayKindLittlesRealFeltDealsWonderBoysSawsConceptsSevenSuperheroSpidersLittle BoysContinuationWonder WomanSuperman And Batman Author:Mark Millar
“Whenever I'd feel angry or sad, I'd keep it to myself. I didn't want to upset or burden anyone with my problems. No wonder I felt lonely and isolated in my relationships, since I never allowed anyone to get to know the full me with all the shadows and sorrows.” KnowsWantFeelsProblemFeltWonderSorrowShadowLonelyAngryBurdenUpsetIsolated Author:Doreen Virtue