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Quotes About Sensation

humanity, gunpowder, and blood. And felt
~ Anna Campbell
My body floated, loose from spent pleasure.
~ Anna Funder
Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!
~ Anne Carson
Isaiah go home and get some sleep, said God. Isaiah went home, slept, woke again. Isaiah felt a sensation below the neck, it was a silk and bitter sensation. Isaiah looked down. It was milk forcing the nipples open. Isaiah was more than whole. I am not with you am in you, said the muffled white voice of God.
~ Anne Carson
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen....
~ Anne Sexton
I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I haven't pushed you, taken you out of yourself, looked for that place inside where you give yourself to your top. Sometimes pleasure can take a bottom there, but more often it's pain that does.
~ Anne Thomas
Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie. Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.
~ Annie Ernaux
Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.
~ Annie Ernaux
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was conscious of the print of her wet foot on a rug through the bathroom door.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
~ Fernando Pessoa
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Je me suis multiplié pour me sentir, Pour me sentir, j'ai eu besoin de tout ressentir; J'ai débordé, j'ai fini par me répandre
~ Fernando Pessoa
We feel the weather even when we are unaware that we do.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want to possess in it is the sensation of possessing it.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Carta para no enviar La dispenso de comparecer en mi idea de usted. Su vida [...] Eso no es mi amor, sino su vida.   La amo como amo el crepúsculo o el reflejo de la luna, con el deseo de que el momento quede, pero sin que sea mío salvo en la sensación de haberlo vivido.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It is between sensation and my awareness of it that all the great tragedies of my life occur. In that shadowy, indeterminate region of forests and burbling water, indifferent even to the noise of our wars, flows the self I struggle in vain to find…
~ Fernando Pessoa
A vida pode ser sentida como uma náusea no estômago, a existência da própria alma como um incômodo dos músculos. A desolação do espírito, quando agudamente sentida, faz marés, de longe, no corpo, e dói por delegação.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Science describes things as they are; art as they are felt, as they are felt to be.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Dormir (...) Una nada con respiración por fuera, una muerte leve de la que se despierta con nostalgia y frescor, un ceder los tejidos del alma al masaje del olvido.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Travel is for those who cannot feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tal vez se descubra que aquello que llamamos Dios, y que de forma tan patente está en otro plano diferente al de la lógica y la realidad espacial y temporal, es una forma de nuestra existencia, una sensación de nosotros mismos en otra dimensión del ser.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sinto a tristeza tanto - uma sensação física de cansaço mental.
~ Fernando Pessoa