Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the…

— Errol R. Fish

“The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the…

— Allan Lokos

“The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s happiness truly…

— Sharon Salzberg

“there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A moment of danger can bring about a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking and thus give you a taste of what it…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The strange sympathy which sometimes exists between two human bodies, so that a touch will stir many secret and perilous emotions, closed down on…

— Anonymous

“We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident which may…

— Marcel Proust

“In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame,…

— Suzette Boon

“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say,…

— Marcel Proust

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous