Quotes About Sensation

The rain washing his house tickled his skin, the memory of a caress on skin that had not felt such a thing in centuries.

Fear was not a familiar sensation, and this fear-stranger-fear of the unknown-even less so. Among the legacies of atavism corrected by rightminding was the overactive fear response of the human amygdala to anything foreign or strange.

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

The strangest thing was that I felt it, I felt everything. Normally I feel nothing but itching, discomfort, tightness, soreness. The surface of my skin is dulled by scars, lots of it is numb -- nerve damage, apparently. When he touched me, I felt everything. It was like having new skin.

I turn up the music, but it never seems to be loud enough.

These revolting scenes created a great sensation at the time, were the talk of the town and neighborhood, and I flatter myself that the actions of those who had conspired against me were not viewed in a light to reflect much credit upon them.

respond to that except by admitting it? 'Yes. My eyes are always stinging from the smoke of it.

When my skin had gone back to its even tone I slept with another man and discovered, my hands lying awkwardly on the sheet at either side of me, that I had forgotten what to do with them. I'm responsible and an adult again, full time. What remains is that my sensation thermostat has been thrown out of whack; it's been years and sometimes I wonder whether my body will ever again register above lukewarm.

Ray likes how smooth I am, how raw my skin is. It burns by the time he's done touching it.

I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty, or witty. Nor do I have any use for sensation, nor do I care. Cessation. It is a technical circle, encircling, cycle, of giving the body to be burned, but having no charity. ... What can I do? For without love I am truly dead.

She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.

What I am trying to say is that for a few minutes I had what almost felt like a vision: that there was deep, deep unrest in the country and that the whisperings of a civil war seemed to move around me like a breeze I could not quite feel but could sense. We got our ice cream and we left, and I told William what I had felt and he said, "I know.

Bernie felt a physical response to this, as though a small wave had just rolled through his chest.

Here lay hidden the secret of the sensuous art of literature; it was the secret of suggestion, the art of causing delicious sensation by the use of words.

There was a certain corner where the heat of that hot August seemed concentrated, reverberated from one wall to the other

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.