Quotes About Sensation

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.

I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Henry would never know how good it could feel when a running wind chilled the sweat in your hair

Something feels like it's missing when I haven't heard any music, and when I hear music, then I really feel like something is missing. That's the best I can do in trying to describe music.

Seria correcto decir que el viento caminaba? No era una figura ni tenia piernas. Yo no lo veia, sólo lo percibia gracias a la sensación, es decir lo notaba y lo dejaba actuar sobre mi. El se alejaba para soplar de nuevo.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar.

The house makes me feel bad," he said. "You make me feel good. I only know how I feel.

On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect

People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

At least her feet didn't seem to be quite as wet as her legs, thanks to the Vaseline … either that, or they were so cold she couldn't feel

I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.