“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ” — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations… — David Eagleman 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
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so… — Fred Small 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
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
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
If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Woman" I have never clearly given to you the associations you have for me, you with such divided presence my dream… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis 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 live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil,… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image