Quotes about Sensations

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking. Votes: 3

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Votes: 3

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! Votes: 3

Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. Votes: 3

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. Votes: 3

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Votes: 3

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. Votes: 3

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Votes: 3

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. Votes: 3

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! Votes: 3

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. Votes: 3

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. Votes: 3

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. Votes: 3

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. Votes: 3

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. Votes: 3

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. Votes: 3

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. Votes: 3

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. Votes: 3

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones. Votes: 3

In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES. Votes: 3

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst. Votes: 3

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Votes: 2

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Votes: 2

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts. Votes: 2

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. Votes: 2

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. Votes: 2

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. Votes: 2

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. Votes: 2

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. Votes: 2

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? Votes: 2

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. Votes: 2

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. Votes: 2

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime. Votes: 2

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't. Votes: 2

I'm a creature of fine sensations Votes: 1

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness Votes: 1

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. Votes: 1

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. Votes: 1

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations. Votes: 1

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. Votes: 1

When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. Votes: 1

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. Votes: 1

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations. Votes: 1

Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations. Votes: 1

Do not shy away from the sensations I create, Cherry Blossom. Take pride in them, as I do. Votes: 1

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences Votes: 1

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for cariety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more. Votes: 1

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations. Votes: 1

Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all. Votes: 1

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to makefriends with the quietness of our sensations. Votes: 1

Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Votes: 1

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. Votes: 1

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. Votes: 1

The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff. Votes: 1

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad. Votes: 1

Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. Votes: 1

Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body. Votes: 1

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense. Votes: 1

So even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no fear Votes: 1

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. Votes: 1

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. Votes: 1

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. Votes: 1

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words. Votes: 1

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. Votes: 1

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. Votes: 1

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience... Votes: 1

How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind? Votes: 1

My legs are falling asleep, I blurted. It wasn't atotal lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations allthrough my body, legs included.I could solve that. Patch's hands closed on myhips. Votes: 1

The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions. Votes: 1

One thing she does not want to come home to is the after-smell of milk gone sour, a lingering smell that disgusts her and reminds her of sensations she daren't recall. Votes: 1

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. Votes: 1

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. Votes: 1

Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. Votes: 1

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. Votes: 1

Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was submerged into a new world of images and sensations peopled by characters who seemed to me as real as my surroundings. Votes: 1

True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations. Votes: 1

... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. Votes: 1

States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. (Absolute Evil) Votes: 1

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. Votes: 1

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Votes: 1

The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure. Votes: 1

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. Votes: 1

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud. Votes: 1

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated. Votes: 1

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead. Votes: 1

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound. Votes: 1

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death. Votes: 1

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought. Votes: 1

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people. Votes: 1

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope. Votes: 1

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39) Votes: 1

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger. Votes: 1

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils. Votes: 1

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. Votes: 1

The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream. Votes: 1

When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation are useless to you at that moment and that they can actually make things worse than they need be. Votes: 1

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that. says Dorian.Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, says Lord Henry Votes: 1

He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and he allowed access only to the most highly refined sensations, to crises of faith and to violent disorders of the senses. Votes: 1

I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated! Votes: 1

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear. Votes: 1

Ineffable, adj. these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot convoy. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. Votes: 1

At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among external sensations the only one possible for me was reading. Reading was, of course, a great help. It stirred, delighted, and tormented me. Votes: 1

The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured. Votes: 1

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. Votes: 1

I concentrate intently on counting: hearing my voice break as the torment and torture builds; fingering myself intensely at his instruction. As we get past ten I slip up; overwhelmed by the sensations wracking my body, I realise in horror that I don't know which number is next. Votes: 1

Stop putting yourself in danger. Stop trying to handle everything yourself instead of trusting me to help you. His gaze wandered, too, lingering on her mouth, her hair, even her breasts, leaving tingling sensations everywhere it touched. Shadows moved along his jaw as muscles tensedStop making me crazy, Janet. Votes: 1

You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted with was an illusion: you had filled those moments with sensations all the more powerful in that nothing and no one had distracted you from them. Votes: 1

What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings. Votes: 1

How about a midnight swim?Swim? On a sigh,Shelby closed her eyes and let the sensations take herI didn't bring a suit.Good. Alan led her down the hall to two large double doors. After pulling them open, he nudged Shelby inside, then closed and locked the doors behind them. Votes: 1

He kissed her on her ear, a kiss with the barest hint of moisture to it. She could not breath for the electricity of it, a violent spark of pleasure that shook and scarred. His fingers caressed her shoulders. His lips pressed into her exposed nape. Dark, hot sensations spiked into her. Votes: 1

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world. Votes: 1

It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning, Votes: 1

Wielding a hammer, however, you're at the very heart of the experience, being flooded with wonderful sensations that simply can't be yours if you use a firearm. Now, you might be asking yourself how I came to discover the splendors of hammer attack. I'll tell you. You won't want to hear it, though. Votes: 1

I decided however fleeting, however short lived these sensations might be, I was determined to savor them while they lasted, without pushing for moreI liked him, and sensed I could grow to like him more. But I knew it was too soon to beckon anyone inside the invisible circle I had drawn around myself. Votes: 1

She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation - was founded on illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides, Tess was only a passing thought. Votes: 1

Their lips met with a tender and powerful force. At that point, they melted into each other and Seth felt a flush of sensations over his entire being. Hands wandered naturally, and each caress became more exciting and pleasurable. Where the body ended and the soul began was a mystery in this ancient game of combinations. Votes: 1

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather.. Votes: 1

He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away. Votes: 1

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours. Votes: 1

Imagination, she figured, just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation. Votes: 1

My cheek stings with Demi's anger. On my lips, the taste of her skin lingers. The two sensations mix, intoxicating me. It's all too much. And yet, it's all so much more real than anything I've experienced before. I want to drink it up, let the rush crest over me. I feel alive. Powerful.And I want more. Votes: 1

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure. Votes: 1

Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations, or drawn by contrary impulsions, his natural tendency is deranged; he is under the necessity to follow a new route; this conducts him to his end, which it even displays to him as the most desirable good. Votes: 1

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies. pg. xvi Votes: 1

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages. Votes: 1

He'd made her see that she'd been living on the edges of life, existing rather than embracing its bountiful richness in technicolour. He'd plunged her head first into a storm of sensations and emotions; a mental shredding of an old, dull skin; a seductive invitation. 'Hello, come with me, let me show you somewhere bigger, more dazzling, more truly alive. Votes: 1

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it? Votes: 1

The man knew how to fuck. Gideon didn't just shove his big dick in and out of a woman. He worked her with it, exploiting friction, changing angles and depth of penetration. The nuances of his skill were lost when I was writhing beneath him and focused only on the sensations he stoked in my body. But I felt them all now. Votes: 1

This time his kiss was full and provocative, summoning sensations she had believed, had hop, were submerged too deeply to be awakened. But his fingers on her face, his mouth, his lips, stirred slumbering emotions and coaxed them to life. His hands moved to cup her head, to spread across her spine, and he crushed her against him as their kisses deepened. Votes: 1

Mandy's chest heaved more with each breath as he transitioned from a kiss into a long, slow, gentle suck. She could feel her nipples harden as the sensations of pleasure coursed from her breasts throughout her entire body. This wasn't the same as when she nursed the baby it was like the difference between having something bump up against your back and having someone massage it. Votes: 1

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was. Votes: 1

We live in a shockingly beautiful world. We are walking through the living kingdom of heaven every day; the colours, the sound, the love of others, the potential to create, the plants, wildlife, nature, music, all sensations and life...but if we refuse to see colour and beauty we may as well be in Hell. Maybe an animated band was the best way of announcing this. Votes: 1

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together. Votes: 1

Of course, fall isn't just about preparing for winter. It's also about sitting on the patio in a worn wool sweater and warming your hands over the swirl of steam rising from a coffee cup. It's about walking across a darkened yard and seeing a flight of geese cross the face of a full moon. It's about settling in, relishing sights and sensations of a world slowing down. Votes: 1

Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before. Votes: 1

Listen to me, Elizabeth Darcy, he growled huskily, You are mine! I forbid you to dream of any other but me. He punctuated his intense words with firm presses of his arousal into her pelvis. She moaned and writhed with the pleasurable sensations arising and struggled to free her captive arms,but he held her fast. He moved his lips along her neck and shoulders, tenderly nibbling and sucking Votes: 1

I'm one of my sensations. Votes: 0

Our ideas are transformed sensations. Votes: 0

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations. Votes: 0

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal. Votes: 0

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. Votes: 0

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. Votes: 0

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. Votes: 0

Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. Votes: 0

The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current. Votes: 0

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness Votes: 0

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. Votes: 0

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure. Votes: 0

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body. Votes: 0

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! Votes: 0

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. Votes: 0

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains. Votes: 0

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. Votes: 0

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos. Votes: 0

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. Votes: 0

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body. Votes: 0

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. Votes: 0

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time. Votes: 0

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. Votes: 0

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. Votes: 0

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. Votes: 0

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. Votes: 0

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else. Votes: 0

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. Votes: 0

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. Votes: 0

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond. Votes: 0

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. Votes: 0

Slowly the foreign air enter me. I feel tingles and sensations. My life becomes a fantasy. Cannabis now rules thee. Votes: 0

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. Votes: 0

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. Votes: 0

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ... Votes: 0

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own. Votes: 0

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. Votes: 0

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories. Votes: 0

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. Votes: 0

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. Votes: 0

Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know. Votes: 0

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that. Votes: 0

'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. Votes: 0

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. Votes: 0

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all. Votes: 0

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions. Votes: 0

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up. Votes: 0

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap. Votes: 0

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair. Votes: 0

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus. Votes: 0

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. Votes: 0

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations. Votes: 0

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment. Votes: 0

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. Votes: 0

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations. Votes: 0

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. Votes: 0

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations. Votes: 0

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations. Votes: 0

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. Votes: 0

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. Votes: 0

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences. Votes: 0

Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. - Juliette, Pg. 139 Votes: 0

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience. Votes: 0

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations. Votes: 0

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them. Votes: 0

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well. Votes: 0

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind? Votes: 0

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand. Votes: 0

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes. Votes: 0

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. Votes: 0

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others. Votes: 0

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations. Votes: 0

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. Votes: 0

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations. Votes: 0

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. Votes: 0

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich. Votes: 0

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. Votes: 0

Flirting? We were merely indulging in a little risqué conversation," Magnus said, offended. "When I begin to flirt, I assure you the entire room will know. My flirtations cause sensations. Votes: 0

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks. Votes: 0

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators. Votes: 0

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description. Votes: 0

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. Votes: 0

States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")" Votes: 0

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. Votes: 0

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films Votes: 0

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations. Votes: 0

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. Votes: 0

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. Votes: 0

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions "” perhaps so that we could believe in them. Votes: 0

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations. Votes: 0

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. Votes: 0

Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and clearly present to whatever thoughts, sensations, or emotions occur. Votes: 0

Happiness can't be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world"”a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks. Votes: 0

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. Votes: 0

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter. Votes: 0

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others. Votes: 0

By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life. Votes: 0