Sensations Quotations

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

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

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

Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

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

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

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

The sensation of falling was the worst part.

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

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

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

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

I was an overnight sensation.

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

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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

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

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

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.