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Senses Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They…
- Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
More Senses Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon
- Love is the poetry of the senses. — Honore de Balzac
- We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses! — Martha Beck
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,… — William Blake
- I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart… — Andrea Bocelli
- The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen