Quotes About Senses

The smell of blood . . . it was on his breath.

Haymitch is still dead to the world. Since nothing else has worked, I fill a basin with icy cold water, dump it on his head, and spring out of the way. A guttural animal sound comes from his throat. He jumps up, kicking his chair a metre behind him and wielding a knife. I forgot he always sleeps with one clutched in his hand. I should have prised it from his fingers, but I've had a lot on my mind. Spewing profanities, he slashes the air a few moments before coming to his senses.

Through regular practice of concentration and meditation you attain clarity of mind, increased grasping power, retentive memory, increased intelligence, confidence, peace, optimism and control of the senses

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

so even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no fear

It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

I can hear only the sounds of love all around me. I love all of the beauty—all of the things I can feel and see.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky's muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing

He smelled of forest and primal desire that saturated Taryn's senses and made her imagine what it felt like to be caught and conquered.

every sense impression that you receive through any of the five senses, influences your thoughts.

AUTOSUGGESTION IS A TERM WHICH APPLIES TO ALL SUGGESTIONS AND all self-administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses. Stated in another way, autosuggestion is self-suggestion. It is the agency of communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought takes place, and that which serves as the seat of action for the subconscious mind.

while it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

Of course, his own plan of letting ill alone was the rational, prudent, irreproachable plan, and just what any gentleman in his senses would have done; but here was a vulgar, fat curate, out of his senses, determined not to let ill alone, but to do something, as Cary felt in his heart, of a far diviner stamp.

You would enable him to make good choices. Help him turn to You. Don't let the enemy win a victory in his heart. Lord, do whatever You need to do in order to bring him to his senses." There were no guarantees in prayer.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

Our senses have been fed by our terrific land; our blood has learned to run to the imperial pulse of America which, leaving, we can never lose and never forget.

I heard water evaporating. I heard the tick of my own biology.

Chiss eyes were a bit better than those of humans, their visible spectrum edging a bit into the infrared. Apparently, their ears were better, too.