Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
Christopher Hitchens

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
Diana Wynne Jones

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Washington Irving

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
Wole Soyinka

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
Vaclav Havel

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.
Susan Smith

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow