Margaret Fuller Quotes

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

All experience is subjective.

No two people react to things the same way, and even the same person reacts differently at a different time.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.