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Quotes About Sensation

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
~ Aristotle
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.
~ William Irwin Thompson
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Emotion is energy in motion.
~ Peter McWilliams
Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.
~ Stacey Donovan, Dive
It's just that we want to love them, these men," said Alex. An intensely bittersweet sensation riveted her body. "We really do." "I don't," said her daughter. "You might someday," Alex said. "Never.
~ Jami Attenberg
Gently this time, though still the touch shot through Jim's clothes, through his skin even. It was this way whenever their bodies met, if limping he brushed against him or laughing he squeezed his arms. The touch charged through like a sputtering tram-wire until it wasn't Doyler he felt but what Doyler touched, which was himself. This is my shoulder, this my leg. And he did not think he had felt himself before, other than in pain or in sin.
~ Jamie O'Neill
The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. Lucky shirt.
~ Jane Kenyon
Nancy kept licking her lips. The inside of her mouth felt as dry as dust.
~ Jane O'Connor
I had a feeling that day, like something was hanging over me.--Jessica
~ Janet Bode
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
~ Janis Joplin
No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.
~ Javier Marías
uno hace descubrimientos extraños una vez que toca o es tocado, una vez que uno roza un muslo por accidente
~ Javier Marías
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
~ E. E. Cumnings
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader---not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico
~ Eckhart Tolle
She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both these extremes of sensation, or to enjoy them only at second hand in the experiences of her more privileged friends.
~ Edith Wharton
a face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The lightness returned. That airless sensation of his body evaporating. Darline and Paris were fading, too. They were becoming distant longings, silhouettes, shadows fading on the ground. There are loves that outlive lovers.
~ Edwidge Danticat
The degree of pain we are experiencing at any time almost always includes two variables: the stimulus "causing" the discomfort, and the threshold for tolerance—that is, the capacity to overcome or perhaps reduce the sensation itself.
~ Edwin H. Friedman