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Quotes About Sensation

On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman. Sensation
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Alla intuitionb is intellectual. For without the understanding it would never come to intuition, to perceptionc, apprehensiond of objects; rather, it would remain as mere sensation,e which at most could have significance with regard to the will as pain or comfort, but would otherwise be a change of meaningless states and
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out.
~ Arundhati Roy
For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.
~ Arundhati Roy
For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accommodate all its organs.
~ Arundhati Roy
Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.
~ Atul Gawande
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.
~ Audre Lorde
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough. ... For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.
~ Audre Lorde
We had a wealth of something we didn't want, but the wealth itself was intoxicating and we invented games, just so we could experience the sensation of having too much of something.
~ Augusten Burroughs
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
~ Ayn Rand
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
~ Stephen King
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.
~ Stephen King
Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night.
~ Stephen King
It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind.
~ Stephen King
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
~ Charles Bukowski
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
~ David Hume
It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world.
~ Snoop Dogg
This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
~ Johnny Rich
We had not mentioned love, but my every nerve ending throbbed with it, and I carried it in a cloud around me, like sea mist.
~ Jojo Moyes
I might lick you." "If it makes you feel better." I licked him. His aftershave didn't taste as nice as it smelled, but it was kind of nice to lick someone. "It does make me feel better," I said with some surprise. "It really does!
~ Jojo Moyes
I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went. For
~ Jojo Moyes
remembering how unpleasant the sensation of wet socks was.
~ Jojo Moyes
It's a pang of discomfort but not of pain.
~ Jojo Moyes
My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
~ Jonathan Lethem