Sensations Quotes

• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

  Charles Hart

  Trust, Dream, Sweet

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• There is something hidden in each sensation.

  Gustavo Cerati

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• It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Philosophy, Greatness

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.180, Penguin

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Joy

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• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Lust, Love And Lust

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• I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

  Brian Wilson

  Believe, Feelings, Intuition

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• 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.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Beautiful, Ocean, Order

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• We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Strong, Pain, Animal

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

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Night

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• In my life I doubt if I will ever forget the sensation of your lips against mine

  Novala Takemoto

  Kissing, Doubt, Lips

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• The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Smell

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• 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.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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• Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Artist, Meaning Of Art

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• We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Blue, Space, Focus

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.40, Canongate Books

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• Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

  Carol Gilligan

  Emotional, Joy, Delight

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• Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

  David Eagleman

  Doe, Action, Timing

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.61, Vintage

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• I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

  Isaac Marion

  Tugging, Lips, Feels

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Passion, Heartache, Way

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Pleasure

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.178, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

  Margot Robbie

  Hard Work, Years, Hard

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• There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Pain, Men, Religion

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Feelings, Particular

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