Top 347 Sensations Quotes & Sayings

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Our ideas are transformed sensations.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Schalke, for me, is a great adventure, and I wanted to experience new sensations away from Real Madrid.

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

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.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

I always say one of the best sensations is when we win at Anfield.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.

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.

All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.