Everyone has their own unique feelings about life and the world around them. Whether it’s joy, sadness, fear, anger, or something else entirely, our emotions shape us and give us insight into how we relate to one another.

That being said, written words have a powerful way of encapsulating these sentiments in a simple but elegant expression of understanding.

With that in mind, here are 100 quotes to help you explore your deepest feelings and appreciate the power of language.

100 Quotes, Sayings & Captions About Feelings

  1. Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. – Mooji
  2. I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone. ⁠– Meg Cabot
  3. Our feelings are a testament to our humanity. – Dr. Brené Brown
  4. The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. – Blaise Pascal
  5. Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime. ⁠⁠– William Shakespeare
  6. My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. ⁠– Dejan Stojanovic
  7. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. ⁠– Nicholas Sparks
  8. You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do it right in spite of your feelings. ⁠⁠– Pearl S. Buck
  9. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ⁠⁠– Marianne Moore
  10. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. ⁠– Yann Martel
  11. It’s not sissy to show your feeling. ⁠– Princess Diana
  12. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. ⁠– Gustave Flaubert
  13. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ⁠– Helen Keller
  14. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ⁠⁠– Carl W. Buehner
  15. Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. ⁠– Barack Obama
  16. In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. ⁠– Mitch Albom
  17. Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken. ⁠– Shannon L. Alder
  18. It’s easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud. ⁠– Anne Frank
  19. Feelings are something you have; not something you are. – Shannon L. Alder
  20. It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. – Marilyn Monroe
  21. Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt. – Neil Gaiman
  22. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  23. There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison. – Jane Austen
  24. A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long. – Pascal Mercier
  25. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. – Bertrand Russell
  26. The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. – Donald Calne
  27. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. – Willard Scott
  28. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler
  29. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. – Carl Gustav Jung
  30. Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored – but rarely, if ever, are they honored. – Karla McLaren
  31. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot
  32. The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  33. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real. – Doc Childre
  34. Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. – Audre Lorde
  35. Feelings are, as we all know, at the heart of emotion. – Peter Goldie
  36. If you want understanding try giving some. – Malcolm Forbes
  37. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so. – Lemony Snicket
  38. Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves. – Carl Sagan
  39. The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude. – Hans Selye
  40. The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. – Albert Einstein
  41. One can never repeat exactly the same emotion. – Oscar Wilde
  42. Emotions have taught mankind to reason. – Marquis De Vauvenargues
  43. Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. – Robert Henri
  44. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. – Nicholas Sparks
  45. We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our emotions influence and shape our desires, thoughts, behaviors, and above all our destiny. – Dr. T.P.Chia
  46. Let’s not forget those little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. – Vincent Van Gogh
  47. Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind’s ability to make positive, brilliant decisions. – Dr. T.P. Chia
  48. Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you. – Unknown
  49. Don’t mix bad words with your bad mood. You’ll have many opportunities to change your mood, but you’ll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke. – Unknown
  50. A big part of emotional intelligence is being able to feel an emotion without having to act on it. – Unknown
  51. Positive people have negative thoughts, too. They just don’t allow those thoughts to grow too big. And they make sure to stop them from following them around all day. – Karen Salmansohn
  52. Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. – Jonathan Martensson
  53. Change your thoughts, and you can change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
  54. Your mind is a garden, and your thoughts are the seed….you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds. – Unknown
  55. Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next. – Unknown
  56. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha
  57. Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. – Norman Vincent Peale
  58. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. – Gustave Flaubert
  59. But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. – Anne Frank
  60. It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. – Stephen Covey
  61. And I’d choose you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. – Kiersten White
  62. You are that one breath, that puts all the remaining breaths back into my body. – Sanober Khan
  63. Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them. – Munia Khan
  64. I still have that feeling of the first time we met every time I see you. – Jayson Engay
  65. The deepest love, you can get from someone is when they give you endless love, patience, and support, all while encouraging you to grow. – Unknown
  66. Love is everything it’s cracked up to be It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, and risking everything for. – Erica Jong
  67. If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love. – Samuel Beckett
  68. You may be just another passerby for everyone else in the world, but to me, you are my entire world. My love for you runs deep, my dearest. – Unknown
  69. My love for you will always be like a mountain stream. Quiet. Persistent. Continuous. – Sanober Khan
  70. Your hand touching mine is how galaxies collide. – Sanober Khan
  71. Perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most – you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love. – Kafka
  72. I want to be in love with you the same way I am in love with the moon with the light shining out of its soul. – Sanober Khan
  73. And the afterglow of your gaze is the only sweater that I need. – Sanober Khan
  74. I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there. – Kamand Kojouri
  75. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. – Cassandra Clare
  76. I never felt the love this deep until I fell for you. Before I knew it, I found myself so in love with you that I can never dream of being apart from you any longer. – Unknown
  77. I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  78. Never be afraid to say what you really feel.
  79. People who hide their feelings usually care the most. – Unknown     
  80. Never apologize for showing feelings. – Benjamin Disraeli
  81. Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling. – Yogi Berra
  82. Once in a lifetime, you meet someone who changes everything!
  83. We try to hide our feelings but we forget that our eyes can speak. – Unknown 
  84. Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? – Leo Tolstoy
  85. Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. – Audre Lorde
  86. Never let your feelings get in the way of seeing things as they truly are.
  87. Feelings are something you have; not something you are. – Shannon L. Alder   
  88. My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. – Dejan Stojanovic
  89. Sometimes your best feelings are found in the words which you type and never send. – Unknown
  90. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. – Oscar Wilde
  91. The hardest thing in life is having feelings in your heart that you can’t put into words. – Unknown      
  92. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. – Gustave Flaubert
  93. Feelings form part of a world where there’s no time, no space, and no frontiers. – Paulo Coelho
  94. The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas–identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. – John Mayer
  95. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. – Nicholas Sparks 
  96. Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? – Leo Tolstoy
  97. A person will be just about as happy as they make up their mind to be. – Abraham Lincoln
  98. Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. – Roy T. Bennett
  99. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all, and from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. – Willard Scott
  100. Don’t shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals. – Jillian Michaels 
  101. Our emotions are like a rollercoaster, they go up and down, but they are always there. – Unknown
  102. Sometimes your mind says, ‘No,’ but your heart says, ‘Go’. – Yvonne Urlanda

After reviewing 100 quotes about feelings, it’s clear that we all experience a range of emotions every day. How we express and process these emotions, though, can be vastly different depending on our individual circumstances.

What we’ve learned is that through understanding our own thoughts and feelings, while also respecting the opinions of others, we can gain valuable insight into how to better manage those intense moments when emotions run high.

Connecting with our inner selves and engaging in reflection helps us learn more about ourselves so that the next time something strikes an emotional chord, it won’t take us by surprise.