Sensations Quotes

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

— John Keats

“i'm a creature of fine sensations”

— Mary Shelley

There is something hidden in each sensation.

— Gustavo Cerati

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

— Angela Carter

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm one of my sensations.”

— Alberto Caeiro

Our ideas are transformed sensations.

— Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

— Henri Matisse

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

“the brain has developed a constellation of mental sensations that feel like thoughts but aren’t.”

— Robert A. Burton

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

— James Dickey

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— William Wordsworth

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate…

— Douglas Adams

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind…

— Etgar Keret

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

It was a huge thrill, to step on a pitch of a championship like the World Cup, is a sensation that... You…

— Neymar

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation,…

— Simon Blackburn

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but…

— John Keats

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing…

— Karel Capek

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't…

— Mandy Moore

Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all…

— Robert Henri

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of…

— Jacques Barzun

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true…

— Anthony Doerr

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that…

— S. N. Goenka

With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away.…

— Andreas Feininger

“My cheek stings with Demi’s anger. On my lips, the taste of her skin lingers. The two sensations mix, intoxicating me. It’s…

— Christine Fonseca

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have…

— Alan Watts

With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system…

— Steve Paxton

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've…

— Norman Borlaug

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.…

— Frederick William Robertson

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different…

— Thomas Young

“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion,…

— Anonymous

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical…

— Willa Cather

“As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She found a stirring at the roots of her hair:…

— Philip Pullman

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search…

— Joseph Conrad

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father…

— Barbara Hepworth

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

— Joaquin Phoenix