Quotes about Sensory

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Christ deliberately hides Himself, disguises Himself, gives no physical sign of His Real Presence in the Eucharist, for a crucially important purpose: to test and elicit and strengthen our faith. If we saw miraculous signs in every Eucharist, or if the Eucharistic bread and wine had no taste, like other bread and wine, or even if we felt unique feelings each time we received the Eucharist, our faith would be less strong because it would have sensible or emotional crutches to lean on.