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Quotes About Sensation

sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.
~ Henry James
whenever in my life I have gazed too long upon Beauty, particularly the beauty of the female, I have always experienced the sensation of fear. Fear, and a touch of horror too.
~ Henry Miller
facing the black square of the crawl, I had a sudden sensation that I was in a dream and that I'd dreamed the dream many times before. I saw myself entering the square—entering that cold, wet, dark place with the awful smell of sewage and human waste, the dry, hard ground crumbling, sinking beneath my feet, the straw pallet mouldering in the darkness.
~ Herbert Lieberman
If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
~ James Turrell
I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
~ Andrea Corr
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear.
~ Debasish Mridha
Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.
~ Abhijit Naskar
physician and viral researcher Frank Ryan comments . . . Viruses have a kind of sensation that could be classed as intermediate between a rudimentary smell or touch . . . they have a way of detecting the chemical composition of cell surfaces. . . . This gives a virus the most exquisite ability to sense the right cell surfaces. It recognizes them through a perception in three-dimensional surface chemistry.1
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
When we die we mourn the loss of such a magnificent sensation that is orgasm.
~ Steven Cooper
We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
I used to like beer, but it makes me feel slightly queasy.
~ Bill Bailey
Even if I sneeze, it would make headlines.
~ Rakhi Sawant
I don't like roller coasters. I don't like bungee jumping. I don't like snow boarding really fast down the hill. I am not someone who is an adrenaline junkie.
~ Jane Levy
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
~ Julia Glass
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' The South reacted with fury to her attack on slavery.
~ Michael Shaara
What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The mind shifts with small abuses of truth," he said. "A new idea is sometimes enough—a change of perception, or one brief look into itself." His voice was soft, but carried force. "The biggest shifts come from experiencing the pure sensations of life, without commentary. Stop thinking, and there's only sensation. Stop trying, and you rise in love.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Whatever goes against the Book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called fear. Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison. Because everything that is in the Book of Law has to be true, anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe. Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe.
~ Miguel Ruiz
She felt something warm and velvety by her leg. It was Behemoth.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Not long ago, I caught myself experiencing a most incredible sensation. Leafing through a book on Hitler, I was touched by some of his portraits: they reminded me of my childhood. I grew up during the war; several members of my family perished in Hitler's concentration camps; but what were their deaths compared with the memories of a lost period in my life, a period that would never return?
~ Milan Kundera
I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
~ Patricia Gaffney
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
~ Robert Frost
You've read about the goddesses, come on. They're an international sensation. These are my girlfriends. These are the women that I love that have completed the three parts of my heart.
~ Charlie Sheen