Quotes About Sensation

I once again experienced the feeling of anxiety that often overwhelmed me at night and was even more intense than fear—the sensation of being completely on my own, without anyone I could turn to. Not my mother, not anyone. I would have liked him to stay all night, on guard in front of the building, all night long and every night like a sentinel, or even better, watching over me like a guardian angel.

A feeling may or may not be true, but you still feel it.

And for a second, for a minute, forever, every nerve in my body is right there, right at the point where we're touching. And boom, I think. That's it.

It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.

The strings felt strange against my fingers, like reunited friends who have forgotten what they have in common.

Aún notaba el temblor de su corazón, como un pájaro enjaulado batiendo las alas contra mi pecho.

I was so deeply in the music that I couldn't have told you where it stopped and my blood began.

For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them.

era realmente demasiado agradable, casi su número favorito entre todos los representantes en el escenario de su gran teatro interior, porque comunicaba la maravillosa sensación de agotamiento placentero que sigue a todo acto verdaderamente grande y heroico.

A wind picked up and I could feel the sea within it.

jalapeño peppers snapped in half and ground into our lips for saying "fuck

No murderer had before or has since caused such a sensation, passed so quickly into folklore or gained an image – top hat, cape and Gladstone bag – that is truly iconic: as instantly recognisable as Sherlock Holmes's deerstalker and meerschaum pipe, and as capable of conveying a meaning understood around the world – even by people who know nothing about the Ripper or what he did, or that he, unlike Holmes, actually existed.

benign masochism refers to the choice to pursue activities that are normally painful or unpleasant but not harmful.

It turns out, then, that if you think something is really going to hurt and it hurts just mildly, the magic of contrast can cause this mild hurt to transform into pleasure.

Choosing to experience pain to enhance subsequent pleasure is a powerful trick, but it only works some of the time.

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 . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.

Paradoxically, pain seems like something done to us, though in reality we have done it to ourselves, manufacturing the sensation. Whatever we might conceive of as "pain" occurs in the mind.

Brave as you may be, wise even as you may be, you tremble when the earth trembles. That is a sensation common to everybody and which no one would ever deny.

I find everything poetic, and it's in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I feel a sensation that leads me into a poetic state…

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.

It was as if gravity was suspended. It was like dancing, I thought, although I had never danced in my whole life. We were never to walk like that again.

Thou art unseen—but yet I hear thy shrill delight.