Appeals Quote by George Eliot

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great…

— George Eliot

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to…

— William James

“All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same…

— Neal Shusterman

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge…

— Johan Huizinga

“Feelings and emotions as well as thoughts and opinions are evanescent; they change over time because they reflect our transient being. Feelings and emotions…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A Letter of Confirmation There is the duty of inspiration which makes one’s heart appeal for emotion. And while inspiration engages in tracing beauty,…

— Sarah Chergui

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. Why hadn't I noticed this in him?…

— Paulo Coelho

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself as a…

— Virginia Woolf

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily…

— Anonymous