Jack London Quotes

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there wouldn't be enough feeling in them, and maybe if there's a progression at all to anything that I've done it's that I've always wanted to have a high - an almost overwhelming - degree of feeling in what I write.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

I close my eyes and it's so real and all at once I know just what I feel - And baby it's the kind of rush that terrifies.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.