Quotes About Sensation

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

When there is no edge, we make our own, reaching for something that would approximate the cliché of being fully alive because we could die at any minute. That search for sensation leads to the self divorcing from the body, à la Descartes, and a life of faux peril. Everything that brought me joy involved risk.

Plus rien n'avait d'importance. C'est tellement rare cette sensation d'être envahi totalement.

our minds can create new ideas from the components which experience has already given us, by combining together our existing ideas in new ways or by shuffling the components of our existing ideas, but we are quite unable to form any completely new ideas beyond those that have already been given to us by sensation or feeling.

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

Todas as cores da poesia, apesar de esplêndidas, nunca podem pintar os objetos naturais de tal modo que se torne a descrição pela paisagem real. O pensamento mais vivo é sempre inferior à sensação mais embaçada.

Admittedly, some people experience synaesthesia, in which they do associate a particular colour or sensation with particular numbers.

Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.

Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

That tastes like hope feels.

Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don't know if it's a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.