You will do with me as you want to, and my feelings about it will not matter to anyone.
A plain man's feelings don't matter to your sort, do they?
He's angry that for the first time in his life his feelings don't matter.
It had never occurred to him that their feelings mattered.
"My feelings do not matter," she finally said, hoarsely.
"As I say, my personal feelings don't matter here," Daniel continued, a lie but a small one.
Sorry is mostly a way of saying, "Your feelings matter at least as much as my pride."
It means that their feelings matter because those emotions belong to a person who matters.
Your wounded feelings matter less than the justice of your cause.
But she was my friend, and her feelings mattered.