Quotes About Sensations

Curious, that wine which did not go to one's head. Or were our heads impermeable to all but music and words? So it seems.

Description of yourself walking through Paris and the tips of your breasts taut and tingling. Feeling, as I read your book, that for the first time I was going to know what are a woman's sensations in love . . . Asking myself over and over, does she look at men always with those steady eyes? . . .

Economy. Pleasure-pain bunkum.

On se penetre non par les sensations mais par la pensée, I wonder.

I love my mystery, I love the abstract world I live in, the delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously, wordless sensations I experience.

The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.

But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know it needs to do something: To eat. To piss or shit. To move or just lie down and rest.

Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it.

People some times say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually its the way things happen to you in real life thats unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, its like watching television. You don't feel anything.

The fact that the universe is illuminated where you stand—that your thoughts and moods and sensations have a qualitative character in this moment—is a mystery, exceeded only by the mystery that there should be something rather than nothing in the first place.

Naterao ju je da se zamisli. Naterao ju je da se smeje. Naterao ju je da zadrhti.

It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless.

His voice just shot through me. It's amazing, the things your body will do just when you don't want them to: heart speeding up, fingers aching. I'd always liked his voice, low and laid-back, the kind of voice that made you listen, a voice that still caused me to teeter when I heard it saying my old nickname.

On the simplest level he could tell you in detail what he felt—what effects an aspirin had on him, what it did to the back of his neck or the inside of his mouth. I was curious about this, because for the life of them most people can't describe what goes on inside. Alcoholics or druggies are too confused, hypochondriacs are their own terrorists, and most of us are aware only of a metabolic uproar within.

Todo o mercado de sentimentos e sensações subiu - o choque, o escândalo encontram-se a um preço inacessível ao homem comum. É preciso fazer mais do que sofrer uma intoxicação por gás, ou cortar os pulsos.

My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind.

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Mit tausendfacher Liebeswonne Sich an mein Herz drängt Deiner ewigen Wärme Heilig Gefühl, Unendliche Schöne!

Nouns, verbs do not exist for what I feel.

Life is a very emotional experience.

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.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

As recently as 1785, he had complained to Knox that "heavy, & painful oppressions in the head, and other disagreeable sensations, often trouble me."56

The integrative powers of the brain for the sensations that come from handling objects spills out into all other domains of intelligence.