I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real. — Janet Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“I'd missed this so much, this simple pleasure. The sensation of a heavy shaft sliding over my tongue, pushing deeper and deeper… — Josephine Myles Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a… — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only… — Hugo Munsterberg Copy Share Image
“The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and brings with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“His head went back, on the stroke up, again. When he finally looked back at her hands still on him, and his… — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I thought: what if randomly, gratuitously stimulating our senses through detail and description could generate emotions that would help make… — Daniel Galera Copy Share Image
“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“When her arousal level was manageable again, she looked at Zach and said, "The line between pleasure and pain is so narrow,… — Candace Blevins Copy Share Image
“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
