#senses

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love #lust-for-life #senses #death

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#just #nothing #senses #soul

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#common sense #given #judges #other #sense

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#every #everything #expression #gesture #senses

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#breathe #charity #heart #kindliness #magnanimity

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#amazingly #meaning #ordinary #out #satisfies

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#around #cannot #deaf #deafness #fact

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. ↗

— Jean Houston

#doors #indeed #key #meaning #our

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#did #divorced #finally #get #her