Quotes About Sensation

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Equality in the realm of sex is an antisexual idea if sex requires dominance in order to register as sensation.

The moment holds neither disappointment nor delight. Realizing we are no longer in love is not the heartbreaking sensation we imagine when we are in love—because it is no sensation at all. It is a realization made by a bystander.

I was at a cocktail party in a new city, looking out at the view, when I felt the sensation of someone opening a window and turned. No one had opened a window; a new person had simply entered the room.

Less searches inside himself for one last bit of antipathy, one speck in the heart's pantry, but he does not even search very hard. How strange. The moment holds neither disappointment nor delight. Realizing we are no longer in love is not the heartbreaking sensation we imagine when we are in love—because it is no sensation at all. It is a realization made by a bystander.

She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect possibility out of an infinite number.

Grace wonders if Tom and Claire will one day visit her and have a similar sensation of home. Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit

I was numb. Once, I had an infected finger. A splinter had gone in and I couldn't get it out. My father said he would try to get it out for me. Before he started "operating", he held an ice cube on my finger to numb it. That's how I felt now. As if someone had applied a giant ice cube to my body and to my brain, as well.

you burn me

At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth.

People who do affirmations will have the sensation that they are causing the environment to conform to their will. This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion of control is one of the best illusions you can have.

People who do affirmations will have the sensation that they are causing the environment to conform to their will. This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion of control is one of the best illusions you can have." He

confined as he may be, he none the less still preserves in his heart the sweet sensation of freedom, and the knowledge that he can quit this prison whenever he wishes.

Era una sensazione piacevole quella di scivolare a volte da soli sul'acqua ed essere battellieri e piloti di se stessi

Ich höre dich, wenn dort mit dumpfem Rauschen Die Welle steigt.

I remember having the same sensation in Gordon Avenue. The two moments, instead of being separated by decades, belong to the same hour of the same season. I wipe and close the knife. A kind of vertigo overcomes me. Words make no more sense. Everything is a continuum.

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

This is why the past seems perfect, a time of proportion and order, because it is immersed in speech. For animals, memory might reside as a sensation, a resonance in the nerves, or in the meat of the spine. But for humans, the past cannot be described except in words. It is nowhere else.

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.

Silk--that's what I want rubbing against me. I feel so woolen all the time.