#senses

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#i #me #out #senses #sister

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ↗

— Walter Pater

#dramatic #finest #given #how #life

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot. ↗

— Savannah Page

#life #pleasure #senses #beauty

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#benevolence #consciousness #order #perception #reason

The fragrance of white tea is the feeling of existing in the mists that float over waters; the scent of peony is the scent of the absence of negativity: a lack of confusion, doubt, and darkness; to smell a rose is to teach your soul to skip; a nut and a wood together is a walk over fallen Autumn leaves; the touch of jasmine is a night's dream under the nomad's moon. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fragrance #olfactory #perfumes #scent #senses

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ↗

— Henry Adams

#perception #senses #sight #unity #vision

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk. ↗

— Michael Scott

#senses #experience

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#influence #influences #observations #proverb #proverbial-wisdom

The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#senses #visions #experience