Quotes about Sensation
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
— Milan Kundera
I felt the breath of God go cold against my skin.
— Barbara Kingsolver
being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The
— Abraham Lincoln
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
— Oscar Wilde
She looked before she drank. Looking was part of drinking. why waste sensation, she seemed to ask, why waste a single drop that can be pressed out of this ripe, this melting, this adorable world? Then she drank. And the air round her became threaded with sensation.
— Virginia Woolf
Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'
— Mother Angelica
All mists curl off the roof of my being.
— Virginia Woolf
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
— Edmund Hillary
This was a different sort of guilt from anything I had previously experienced. It was a heavy guilt, not the sort of guilt that I could do anything about. It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
— Donald Miller
We can never know either the hatefulness of sin or the treachery of our self-nature until there is that flash of God upon us. I speak not of a sensation but of an inward revelation of the Lord Himself through His Word. Such a breaking in of divine light does for us what doctrine alone can never do.
— Watchman Nee
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation
— Joseph Addison