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Quotes About Sensation

There was an intensity of sensation when you were on the edge of what you could handle, when you were physically tested and made to fight for each breath, that was somehow exhilarating.
~ Joe Hill
That uncomfortable buzzing in your head is the hum of thought. I know the sensation must be quite unfamiliar.
~ Joe Hill
She knew even before she opened her eyes that she was home—or not home, but in her woods at least. She knew they were her woods by the smell of pines and the quality of the air, a scrubbed, cool, clean sensation that she associated with the Merrimack River. She could hear the river, distantly, a gentle, soothing rush of sound that was really in no way like static.
~ Joe Hill
It tasted of the oak cask and sweet annihilation.
~ Joe Hill
I took another draught and my mouth was awash again in a riptide of bitter, bubbly, CO2 eruptions and the fruity splash of malted barley. What a sensation! I wasn't sure if I liked it at first, but by bottle's end I was a dedicated fan.
~ Joel Miller
Today I raised your letter hastily to my lips, and it set my teeth on edge.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
~ Steven Seagal
Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before. For a moment, or for minutes, for hours, possibly.
~ E. Lockhart
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
~ E.M. Cioran
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
~ Edmund Spenser
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
~ Edna O'Brien
The room is full of you! — As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something in the air, intangible, yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick!—
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
~ Anonymous
Déjà Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.
~ Anonymous
mas quem dá por um eco na água se ela própria água feita de ecos também, aqueles que dizem sentir a água enganam-se, sentem a memória dela
~ António Lobo Antunes
Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are composite perceptions of what happens in our body and mind when we are emoting.
~ António R. Damásio
No hay ser, en el sentido propio del término, sin una experiencia mental espontánea de la vida, sin una sensación de existencia.
~ António R. Damásio
The head, the chest, and the abdomen were the most commonly engaged theaters of feeling. They are indeed the stages on which feelings are created.
~ António R. Damásio
felt cold metal
~ Anthony Bruno
There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, there: a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way down a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot.
~ Anthony Doerr
The weather in this place: you can feel it between your fingers.
~ Anthony Doerr
Werner can feel the fever flickering inside him, a stove with
~ Anthony Doerr
Every time he blinks, a memory ripples across the undersides of his eyelids:
~ Anthony Doerr
Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.
~ Anthony Doerr