Quotes About Sensation

Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

How you feel about something, she said, is there before you detect the stimulus;

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

Slowly, I felt my mood begin to brighten. It was unperceivable at first, but as I noticed a pleasant sensation starting in the base of my skull, sending shivers of pleasure throughout my body, I

If the story that engenders the fear is dropped, I discover that all I am left with is a physical sensation which is raw and alive. Now it ceases to overrun me and quietly takes its place in existence. It is the same with physical or emotional pain. When I cease to own it I liberate myself from its bondage and see it simply as it is. If I cease to label suffering as bad, and mine, it is possible to allow it simply as energy in a certain form, and it can then begin to have its own flavour.

It fluttered Nicholas's collar and made his eyes water, blurring the stars. And then the sensation of tears seemed to trigger a sort of emotional reflex, for the next thing he knew, Nicholas was truly crying, which surprised him.

The problem was, he felt it now.

You know, said Port, and his voice sounded unreal, as voices are likely to do after a long pause in an utterly silent spot, the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind. Kit shuddered slightly as she said: From behind? Yes. But what is behind? Her voice was very small. Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

Of course, and the reason is very simple: routines give them the false sensation of being safe. Thus, today will be exactly like yesterday, and tomorrow will bring no surprises. When night falls, part of the soul complains that nothing different was experienced, but another part is content - paradoxically, it is for the same reason.

One popular way of relating to physical pain is mindfulness meditation. It involves directing your full attention to the pain and breathing in and out of the spot that hurts. Instead of trying to avoid the discomfort, you open yourself completely to it. You become receptive to the painful sensation without dwelling on the story your mind has concocted: It's bad; I shouldn't feel this way; maybe it will never go away.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing.

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it

Her hand moved higher, tracing his

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. - Queen Bitch