Quotes About Sensation

You either have the feeling or you don't.

It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.

Things as they are clash with things as our top-down invariant processes expect them to be. We shove sensation through the filter of the past to make the future predictable. In the process, we lose the present. But because the present is all that exists, we have lost everything in the bargain.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays.

People don't always remember events or conversations clearly, but they do remember with great accuracy how an experience made them feel.

You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.

It were the sort of mist that soaked into your flesh, into your being, so it were like you were one with it...

But Beauvoir could feel what Ruth was sensing. Something was radiating off Gamache. Was it rage he felt from the chief? Jean-Guy wondered. It certainly wasn't fear. It was actually, Beauvoir realized with some surprise, extreme calm. He was like the center of gravity in the room.

the room was warming up and there was nothing quite like the comfort of being cold, then slowly feeling the heat approaching and arriving and spreading.

So cool that Clara felt goose bumps rise on her forearms.

She got quite upset and said that the night is a strawberry.

A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire.

She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back of her neck and make her blood beat faster.

A staccato kiss

True hunger makes eating more pleasurable, and this sensation better directs us

Symptoms of True Hunger Enhanced taste sensation Increased salivation Gnawing throat sensation

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

Her mouth tasted of smoke and toothpaste and something feety that made my blood flare

something inside me seemed to shift and slide, and for a moment I felt nauseous, and panic sent a hot bead rolling down my spine. ... Slowly the nausea gave way to a stifling sensation, as if an invisible caul were being pulled down over my head and shoulders.

The sensation that for the world to exist with an object of such beauty in it—and for that object to be unattainable—was the very sweetest kind of pain imaginable.

There was no snow here, but a wind was blowing from the east which searched the marrow.