All ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes about “Feelings”

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
“Iâ€™m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life acrossâ€”not to just depict lifeâ€”or criticize itâ€”but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You canâ€™t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you canâ€™t believe in it. Things arenâ€™t that way.”
“You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.”
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
“But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
“Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.”
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.”

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