The Senses Quotes

As we become multi sensory, we move beyond the limitations of the five senses and we now are evolving to a different mechanism in the exploration of physical reality.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

The movement of Soul beyond the human senses is such a natural process that one is likely to overlook it in its simplicity.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.