Sensations Quotes

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

There is something hidden in each sensation.

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.

A scent of lavender cannot be put into words.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder