Sensations Quotes - Page 15

• Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Thinking, Feelings

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• Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Lightning, Today, Intimate

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• She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Voice

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• On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Summer, Blue, Wind

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Sensation”

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• You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

  Will Self

  Real, Writing, Successful

  "Will Self's rules for writers", www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Guinea, Notes, Should

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Giving, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn’t steal her kiss. He didn’t take it. He cajoled it from her.

  Lora Leigh

  Pain, Kissing, Return

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.92, Penguin

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• We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Stars, Ocean, Math

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books

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• It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara

  Susane Colasanti

  Incredibles, Feels, Supposed To Be

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• I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

  Charles Yu

  Confused, Fall, Climbing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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• It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

  Jenny Nimmo

  Reading, Exceptional

  Jenny Nimmo (2011). “The Snow Spider Trilogy”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wall, Lying, Sitting

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth. (page 128)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Done, Bulls

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• One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

  Andy Rooney

  Feelings, Vindictive, Strikes

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• Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus to invite inspiration...Inspiration is a sensation in the body. It can be invited upon your will and willingness to experience it taking you over.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Block, Inspiration, Focus

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• The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Splitting Up, Tranquility

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• The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

  Tom Stoppard

  Names, Trying, Firsts

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Believe, Pudding

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• Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

  Ann Aguirre

  Heart, Strange, Offers

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.96, Penguin

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• You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Necks, Feels

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books

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• I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Boys, Long

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