Sensations Quotes

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

I was an overnight sensation.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Flirting? We were merely indulging in a little risqué conversation," Magnus said, offended. "When I begin to flirt, I assure you the entire room will know. My flirtations cause sensations.

The sensation of falling was the worst part.

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.