Quotes About Senses

I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.

Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. He had used the John Burroughs quote as a mantra

So you worked for the war industry but came to your senses!" [Margy Van Alstyne] darted a glance at her son. "What rank were you?" "I was a captain when I resigned." [Clare] "Ha!" Margy Van Alstyne's elbow caught Russ in the solar plexus. "She outranks you, son! Finally, a woman who can boss you around!" "Every woman in my life bosses me around," he muttered, rubbing his stomach.

It's funny. Sometimes when you're passionate about something and you dedicate yourself to it completely, your actions become a reflex. Your senses become more astute and time slows down before your eyes.

labios que se abrían para que él le tocara las encías, entrara y recorriera cada repliegue tibio donde se olía un poco el coñac y el tabaco.

respirando confundidos, las bocas se encuentran y luchan tibiamente, mordiéndose con los labios, apoyando apenas la lengua en los dientes, jugando en sus recintos donde un aire pesado va y viene con un perfume viejo y un silencio.

Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre.

Cuando uno es joven y vive ajeno a la realidad, cuando las estaciones pasan sin grandes cambios ni alteraciones, como si fueran nubes en día sin viento, cuando la felicidad consiste en dejarse arrastrar por los sentidos, uno percibe sólo el presente, y el futuro y el pasado pasan a un segundo plano, cuando no desaparecen por completo. Es como en medio del mar, donde sólo existe éste.

THIS BODY Happy, I listen to the tinny sounds of the great music I still hear. Dazzling clear pure upper tones have disappeared but I am alive, silvery and achy—like Beethoven I listen with my imagination not my senses to the cascading notes that play on the cosmos, I listen with my heart and dance to the bliss I would never have known without this human body. JANINE CANAN

Though there were those in the Colony who still spoke of heaven – a place, beyond physical existence, where the soul went after death – the idea had never made sense to him. The world was the world, a realm of the senses that could be touched and tasted and felt, and it seemed to Peter that the dead, if they went anywhere at all, would pass into the living.

Animal smell is beyond philosophy.

I trust his senses. If he says that there is danger ahead, then there's probably danger ahead.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms… this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

Quien no ama con sus cinco sentidos a una mujer hermosa, no estima a la naturaleza su mayor cuidado y su mayor obra

God's way of training requires the constant exercise of an individual's spiritual senses so that he will train himself to discern good from evil. When a child is rightly trained, he will listen to the voice of the Spirit in times of temptation; and, when he is confronted with the allurements of the occult, his spiritual senses will have been trained "to distinguish good from evil" (Heb. 5:14).

The sea up close is enormous. I squeezed my eyes against it for a moment, which is ridiculous, like fighting a giant with a pin. It comes to you anyway, through your ears and nose and skin and tongue. It is a savage, muscular thing, a vast dim wetness battering at the land and the air and all your senses.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

The water didn't seem to have any scents or soaps applied to it, so Shallan raised the small basin and then took a long, slurping drink. "I washed my feet in that," Adolin noted.

She took my other sense of taste. The important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and my sense of self. The last one stung the most, since it appears my sense of self is tied directly to my wit. I mean, it's in the name