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Quotes About Sensation

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
poco después de mi regreso a la civilización, tuve otro ataque de locura (si puede aplicarse ese término cruel a la melancolía y a una sensación de angustia insoportable).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet… not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.
~ Larissa Ione
Pillsbury shouted the only word that came to mind. "Ow!
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The gum is so minty in my mouth as I chew it, I can hardly inhale. It's like inhaling the steam off a block of ice, too fresh.
~ Laura Kasischke
Outside again, the river was invisible in the dark, but I could feel it swell and sink beneath the lawn as I ran back to the office, as if the earth were a membrane, a blister, filling up fast with water or blood, as if I were running across the back of a bruise, thinking it was the world.
~ Laura Kasischke
despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.
~ Laura Ruby
For a split second, his finger touches my skin, and he might as well have brushed me with a lit match.
~ Lauren Henderson
His knuckles slid down, grazing my cheek.
~ Lauren Myracle
There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.
~ Lauren Myracle (Let It Snow)
The sensation of flight was novel and delightful, and the fact of accomplishing what several eminent scientists have 'proved' impossible gave an added satisfaction.
~ Laurence Meynell
Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom.
~ Celeste Ng
she peeled the wrapper from the gum and put it between her lips and felt the mint bloom on her tongue.
~ Celeste Ng
Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)
~ Charles de Leusse
"Are you in pain, dear mother?" "I think there's a pain somewhere in the room," said Mrs. Gradgrind, "but I couldn't positively say that I have got it."
~ Charles Dickens
Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us.
~ Charles Dickens
Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable; with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the Great Pyramid.
~ Charles Dickens
Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The verdicts in the criminal trial arising out of the Morro Castle disaster caused a new sensation. William Warms was sentenced to two years imprisonment; Eban Abbott received four years; Ward Line vice-president Henry E. Cabaud was fined five thousand dollars and given one year's suspended sentence.
~ Gordon Thomas
Moving into the hallway, I make the mistake of looking down. The floor seems to drop out from under me, with nothing solid to support me but my own reflection. I take a step, watching the sole of my bare left foot meet its twin rising up on the flipside. I get the weirdest sensation that I won't fall as long as I have the reversed images of my own feet to walk on.
~ Graham McNamee
Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed to spread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan blood mixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, a fundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through his veins. His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs. Hybrid eyes.
~ Greg Cox
They did not like the sensation of having things vibrating on their shells, though. It made them angry. Very angry.
~ Guy N. Smith
First we feel. Then we fall.
~ James Joyce
In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.
~ James Joyce