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Quotes About Sensations

I've had visions in the orgy many times. They don't mean anything.
~ Frank Herbert
O frio e o calor alternam dentro de mim com as palavras de uma frase, sonho com a expansão e a queda melodiosas. Leio frases de Goethe como se percorresse com todo o meu corpoa gama de entoações
~ Franz Kafka
In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.
~ Chris Hadfield
I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.
~ Santiago Calatrava
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
~ Maeve Binchy
But watch out for certain kinds of morels with wine. They're like a hallucenogenic.
~ Jack Hemingway
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
~ Ian Hacking
She tasted like buried treasure and swing swets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.
~ Robyn Schneider
She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.
~ Robyn Schneider
Friendship is a vital part of what Eric Berne described as 'recognition hunger', 'the quest for special kinds of sensations which can only be supplied by another human being, or in some cases, by other animals' (Berne, 1972/75, page 41). This
~ Roger Day
A feeling. He wasn't one for giving names to things. Or finding their basis. His feelings were like weather. He just suffered or enjoyed them.
~ Louise Erdrich
There were so many sensations in his body that he couldn't feel them all at once, and each, as soon as he felt it, slipped away into the past.
~ Louise Erdrich
The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
On est puceau de l'horreur comme on l'est de la volupté.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Já agora creio que não basta que os pregões de rua, como os opúsculos de seminário, encerrem casos, pessoas e sensações; é preciso que a gente os tenha conhecido e padecido no tempo, sem o que tudo é calado e incolor.
~ Machado de Assis
Mas o tempo corre, e as nossas sensações com ele se modificam.
~ Machado de Assis
in all kinds of colors that don't have names. In general, I think there are far more colors and smells than there are words. The
~ Amos Oz
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
~ Amy Tan
My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
~ Anais Nin
His body smelled like a precious-wood forest; his hair, like sandalwood, his skin, like cedar. It was as if he had always lived among trees and plants.
~ Anais Nin
She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them?
~ Anais Nin
I love my mystery, I love the abstract, fuyant world I live in as long as I don't begin my work, the forcing out of delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously wordless sensations into something you can seize on—perhaps never.
~ Anais Nin