[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit… — A. M. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
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