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Quotes about Sensation

I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.
- Toni Morrison
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
- JM Coetzee
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
- Milan Kundera
In the experience [of drinking tea], you are one with the tea, there is no distinction between subject and object, there is no evaluation, there is no discrimination. This pure sensation can be presented as an example of non-discriminative knowledge. It is that which introduces us to the heart of reality.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.
- Bo Burnham
It wasn't that Europe wasn't beautiful; everything was just as I imagined it. It just wasn't mine. I felt as if I was living out someone else's romance; the incompleteness of my own history stood between me and the sites I saw like a hard pane of glass.
- Barack Obama
I felt the breath of God go cold against my skin.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
- Anais Nin
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
- Joseph Addison
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation
- Joseph Addison
Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.
- Tony Robbins