Quotes About Sensation

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

felt that little quickening. It was just as I imagine a woman must feel, when the baby within her gives its first kick. Does it matter if I feel that, that is so small, and silent, and secret?

I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharp—like vinegar, like blood. Like money.

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...

I reached for Jack's hand. It was cold. But then, so was mine.

Sugar and the man in the Hawaiian shirt stepped forward and pulled him up. But as they stepped away again, the backs of their hands brushed- it was just the lightest touch, for the briefest of moments, almost nothing more than hair upon hair, yet Sugar felt it like a blowtorch on creme brûlée.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.

...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight.

Caminaba yo por el sendero muy descorazonado, cuando me sentí penetrado de una sensación reconfortante, alegre y cosquilleante, igual que un burbujeo, y tan alegre, que no es posible explicarlo con palabras, porque comprendí por esa señal que Satanás estaba cerca. Ya

When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.

It's the sound of my breathing that gets me, pouring down into my lungs and then tripping back up my throat.

Her nerves licked her palms.

She almost smiles from the pain - from the beauty of it. She's out of herself. Barefoot.

She was suddenly aware of how empty her feet felt inside her shoes.