Sensation Quotes

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. (Ayn Rand)
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. View quote
Emil Cioran
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. View quote
Amy Tan
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. View quote
John Updike
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader-not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. (Denis Diderot)
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. View quote
Lord Byron
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy, You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday, No wonder you feel that lost sensation You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. View quote
Ogden Nash
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. View quote
Christopher McDougall
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. View quote
Natalie Wood
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. View quote
Esther Williams
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain. View quote
John Updike
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things. (Norman Borlaug)
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth. View quote
John Ruskin
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. View quote
Harper Lee