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Quotes About Sensation

Jenks's wings tickled my neck, and I shivered.
~ Kim Harrison
The sensation passed, and after a bit of thought he decided it must have been that the decelerating car had passed momentarily through one g. An image came to him, of running out a long pier, wet uneven boards splashed with silver fish scales; he could even smell the salt fish stink. One g. Funny how the body remembered it.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
My heart understands all, and it no longer beats, it peals.
~ Knut Hamsun
His feeling for ivory was somewhat undeveloped.
~ Knut Hamsun
I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.
~ Zeena Parkins
As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of drowsiness, and for a few moments enjoyed the sensation of dozing off. It was a sensation akin to numbness, as if his hands and feet were melting away.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath, only now the floodgates in my chest opened...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.
~ Yu Hua
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.
~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
~ Deborah Levy
He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, 'to find himself' about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.
~ Deborah Levy
Asmara. Tidak bisa dipahami, cuma bisa dirasakan akibatnya.
~ Dee Lestari
Any feeling is both mental and physical~
~ Deepak Chopra
Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.
~ Deepak Chopra
Be with your fear, seeing it as a bodily sensation. Think of this sensation as rooted in old energies that have been stored up. Ask that pent-up energy to flow out of your body. Assist this flow until you have released what is ready to leave right now.
~ Deepak Chopra
The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
~ Denis Diderot
She scratched the back of her neck slowly with her nails, ripping long, deep welts, trying to chase it away. Numbness is worse than pain: it's like a violent wasting disease when all connection with the outside world evaporates, nothing matters, nothing counts, nothing touches or entertains or surprises; even physical sensations feel distant and unreal. It's death without the paperwork.
~ Denise Mina
That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.
~ Dennis Bock
In his throat was the bitterness of morning.
~ Denys Johnson-Davies
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
~ Andre Gide
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
~ Lord Byron
Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva