Sensations Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Adventure, Self

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• The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

  Joseph Murphy

  Healing, Perfect, Mind

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• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Feelings, Connections

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Space, Feelings

  N.Y. Times, 21 July 1969

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• The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Winter, White, Snow

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• She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.

  Sarah Waters

  Cutting, Hair, Wings

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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. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Grief, Yawning

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

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Today

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

  David Levithan

  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Past, Men

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.262, London

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• The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Perception, World

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.350, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

  Michael Cunningham

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• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Long, Solitude, Half

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.199, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Real, War, Our World

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Suicide, Business, Real

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• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Order, Space, Different

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”

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• He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Loss, Different, Kind

  Marcus Aurelius (1915). “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.227, Рипол Классик

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• 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.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Real, Light, Black

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

  Jean Helion

  Art, Eye, Imagination

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

  Roberto Calasso

  Might, Alive, Divine

  Roberto Calasso (2010). “Literature and the Gods”, p.34, Vintage

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• I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Achievement, Missing, Feelings

  "Gavin DeGraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain

  Saul Kripke

  Pain, Felt

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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