There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said,'Although pain isn't real, If I sit on a pin 22 And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel.'

-Anonymous
Collected in The Week-End Book (1925).

An editor must always be with the peopleöthink with themöfeel with themöand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightöalways be strongöalways free.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the Courier and Enquirer,12 Nov.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would suffer†it is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Jane Eyre, ch.12.

She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.

-Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel
  Herself Surprised, ch.7.

But love a womman that she woot it nought, And she wol quyte it that thow shalt nat fele; Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.1, l.807^9.

Many peopleapparentlydon'ttrusttheir reactionstoart or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it.In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

-Coleman, Ornette
  Sleeve-note, Change of the Century.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feelöit is, before all, to make you see.Thatöand no more, and it is everything.

-Korzeniowski
  The Nigger of the Narcissus, preface.

It is not that the Englishman can't feelöit is that he is afraid to feel.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Abinger Harvest,'Notes on English Character'.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep fromworking and yet feel you've done something.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,1  Jul.

   About morals,I know only that what ismoral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.1.

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any memberö No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,ö November!

-Honorius of Autun
  'No'.

   Pray inwardly, even though you do not enjoy it. It does good though you feel nothing, even though you think you are doing nothing.

-Julian of Norwich known as LadyJulian
^c.1393  Revelations of Divine Love, ch.41.

   I am not calm, I am unspontaneous.When something happens to me, I don't know how to feel.

-Kennedy, A(lison) L(ouise)
  So I  Am Glad, ch.1.

A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself togetheröand then he dies.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Of life in Singapore. From Sea to Sea.

I have something more to do than feel.

-Lamb, Charles
  Letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 27 Sep, on the death of his mother at his sister Mary's hands. Collected in E  W Marrs Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.1 (1975).

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably wantto know iswhere Iwasborn, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind ofcrap, but Idon't feel likegoing into it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.1.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futuritycastsuponthepresent; thewordswhichexpress what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

La premie'  re condition pour e¤  crire, c'est une manie'  re de sentir vive et forte. The primary requirement fora writer istofeel keenlyand strongly.

-Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de
  De l'Allemagne.

   It wasfifteenminutesbefore Icouldwork myself up togo and humblemyselftoaniggeröbut Idoneit, and Iwarn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn'done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Huck, of Jim.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.15.