Michael Chabon Quotes

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

I have no idea how things work in the life beyond what we know with our senses.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.