Sensations Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

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• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Evil, Freedom Of Speech, Intellectual

  "Pullman defiant over US protests against Northern Lights" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Solitude, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Time, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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• It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

  Roger Zelazny

  Heart, Anticipation, Moments

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• 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.

  Jack Abbott

  Long, Might, Pressure

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.

  Edward Norton

  Opposites, Brain, Needs

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

  John Locke

  Reflection, Ideas, Two

  1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.

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• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98

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• He said he loved me,” she whispered. Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensation, almost a premonition of what it must like to be a parent. Someday, God willing, he’d have a daughter, and that daughter would look like the woman standing in front of him, and if ever she looked at him with that bewildered expression, whispering, “He said he loved me . . .” Nothing short of murder would be an acceptable response.

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Expression, Parent

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• To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

  Caroline Knapp

  Spiritual, Real, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.71, Dial Press

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• This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Confused, Grandma

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• But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

  Kirsten Miller

  Morning, Heart, Eye

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• An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

  William Landay

  Hate, Ideas, Desire Love

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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• He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Worry, Dining

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• I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

  Robin Sloan

  Together, World, Littles

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Attitude, Teaching

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

  Francis Bacon

  Looks, Return, Painting

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• More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Badass, Hair, Feelings

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• I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

  Andre Gide

  Use

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Littles, Rooms

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

  David Levithan

  Real, Giving, Tangible

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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