atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.
As you age, feelings do diminish.
In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?
Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.
