--- title: "13 Feels Quotes By Tim O'Brien" description: "13 Feels quotes by Tim O'Brien. Plus more from Tim O'Brien and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f33/tim-o-brien-1818_feels_i-want-you-to-feel-what-i-felt-i-want-yo_3137839.png" --- > [I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/i-want-you-to-feel-what-i-felt-i-want-you-to-know-why-story-truth-is/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f33/tim-o-brien-1818_feels_i-want-you-to-feel-what-i-felt-i-want-yo_3137839.png) > [Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/inside-i-feel-much-like-a-12-year-old-or-a-17-year-old-who-knows-big/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/tim-o-brien-1818_big_inside-i-feel-much-like-a-12-year-old-or_529158.png) > [The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/the-presence-of-danger-has-a-way-of-making-you-feel-fully-awake/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/tim-o-brien-1818_awake_the-presence-of-danger-has-a-way-of-maki_1418960.png) > [I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/i-cannot-remember-much-i-cannot-feel-much-maybe-erasure-is-necessary/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/tim-o-brien-1818_attacking_i-cannot-remember-much-i-cannot-feel-muc_2099551.jpg) > [...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/you-find-yourself-studying-the-fine-colors-on-the-river-you-feel/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0a/tim-o-brien-1818_aching_you-find-yourself-studying-the-fine-colo_2016558.png) > [If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/if-a-story-seems-moral-do-not-believe-it-if-at-the-end-of-a-war-story/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/tim-o-brien-1818_believe_if-a-story-seems-moral-do-not-believe-it_2818091.png) > [But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/but-i-do-like-churches-the-way-it-feels-inside-it-feels-good-when-you/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/584/tim-o-brien-1818_church_but-i-do-like-churches-the-way-it-feels_670091.png) > [It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/it-wasn-t-a-question-of-deceit-just-the-opposite-he-wanted-to-heat-up/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/004/tim-o-brien-1818_deceit_it-wasn-t-a-question-of-deceit-just-the_904484.png) > [What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/what-would-you-do-would-you-jump-would-you-feel-pity-for-yourself/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b0/tim-o-brien-1818_behinds_what-would-you-do-would-you-jump-would-y_1180510.png) > [You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/you-don-t-know-when-i-m-out-there-at-night-i-feel-close-to-my-own/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/tim-o-brien-1818_blood_you-don-t-know-when-i-m-out-there-at-nig_1129387.png) > [The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/the-goal-i-suppose-any-fiction-writer-has-no-matter-what-your-subject/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b22/tim-o-brien-1818_about_the-goal-i-suppose-any-fiction-writer-ha_1884082.jpg) > [Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/mitchell-sanders-was-right-for-the-common-soldier-at-least-war-has/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d31/tim-o-brien-1818_ambiguity_mitchell-sanders-was-right-for-the-commo_904964.jpg) > [Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/even-now-as-i-write-this-i-can-still-feel-that-tightness-and-i-want/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/376/tim-o-brien-1818_behinds_even-now-as-i-write-this-i-can-still-fee_2094263.png) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Tim O'Brien > [“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/yes-the-issue-was-courage-it-always-had-been-even-as-a-kid-things/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/it-s-very-hard-to-articulate-the-things-that-are-important-about/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/the-thing-about-a-story-is-that-you-dream-it-as-you-tell-it-hoping/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/fiction-maybe-art-in-general-is-a-tentative-uncertain-enterprise-it-s/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/i-learned-that-words-make-a-difference-it-s-easier-to-cope-with-a/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/stories-are-for-eternity-when-memory-is-erased-when-there-is-nothing/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it." Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/the-story-sanders-would-say-the-whole-tone-man-you-re-wrecking-it/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/on-occasions-the-war-was-like-a-ping-pong-ball-you-could-put-fancy/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/they-were-afraid-of-dying-but-they-were-even-more-afraid-to-show-it/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/forty-three-years-old-and-the-war-occurred-half-a-lifetime-ago-and/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/he-thought-about-the-difference-between-good-times-and-bad-times-and/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/a-lie-sometimes-can-be-truer-than-the-truth-which-is-why-fiction-gets/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/my-life-is-storytelling-i-believe-in-stories-in-their-incredible/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/with-a-hangover-and-with-fear-it-is-difficult-to-put-a-helmet-on-your/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) > [“Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/peace-never-bragged-if-you-didn-t-look-for-it-it-wasn-t-there/) [Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/tim-o-brien/#itemlist", "name": "13 Feels Quotes By Tim O'Brien", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want you to feel what I felt. 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