“...of having forgotten the colour of loves and the taste of hatreds. We thought we were immortal.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might… — Jane Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Mirror-touch synesthesia could very well scientifically explain why physical empaths seem to “catch” or absorb the illnesses of other people, and also… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
“An additional problem occurs when people may infer they have synesthesia when they really do not, or they may pretend to have… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
So, there's a lot of 22 in my life. That always followed me and has always been good to me. I also… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it,… — Berit Brogaard Copy Share Image
“If you are an autistic synesthete, you may be held in higher esteem by some than if you do not have it.… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Galton, by comparison, was more a polymath, and made not insignificant contributions to a whole range of fields. His myriad gifts to… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at… — Claudia Hammond Copy Share Image
“Deep spirit scanning,” Eisfanger says. His voice has a strange resonance to it, like I’m hearing him through a bad phone connection.… — D.D. Barant Copy Share Image
