Quotes About Sensory

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

Five Containers of the Body These five containers create three realities: sensory reality that depends on the flesh (indriyas), emotional reality that depends on the heart (chitta) and conceptual reality that depends on imagination (manas) and intelligence (buddhi). Elements

Imagination helps us create concepts, which filter our sensory inputs and ultimately impact our emotional experience. Thus,

Even later, the red colour was replaced by saffron colour, indicating celibacy and continence, a rejection of all things sensory.

Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

For four years she'd subsisted on memories of this—his voice, his face, the sound of his breath and his heartbeat. She felt him like a leaf feels the sun, like a magnet feels metal.

so if you feel a little breeze or smell a donut smell sometimes, why, you know it's just my thoughts passing through.

Americans see Italian "come una lingua polisensoriale capace di aprire le porte al bello" ("as a multi sensory language able to open the gates to beauty").

buscaba el olor puro del aliento, ese que acompaña a la palabra y al suspiro y convierte a una desconocida —pues la mayoría de las veces ni sabía ni sabría nunca el nombre de la donante— en alguien inolvidable.

El animal olía a cieno, a mucus, a hojas en descomposición, a algas machacadas, a madera mohosa, a tierra húmeda, el mismo olor sordo, inferior, un poco grasiento, que traía Katsuro cuando volvía del río; y, bajo los pechos de Miyuki, el corazón de la carpa latía con el mismo compás tranquilo, muy majestuoso sin lugar a dudas, que el de Katsuro algunas mañanas, inmediatamente después de haberse acostado con su mujer:

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

The way she said "dinner" and the way she said "champagne" gave meat and liquid their exact difference, as if by having surmounted two mediums, earth and air, her talent, running forward, achieved all others.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Eggs crack. Butter pops in a hot pan. Soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese. An omelette arrives. The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold. Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later she is eating wedges of wet sunlight.

They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees.

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.