“You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.” LifeAgeMiddleConditionsTearsSweetPrayingSensationsMiddle Ages Author:James A. Garfield
“The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.” IdeasBodyScienceCertainUnderstandingQualityFiguresProduceSweetBluePatternsWarmPrimariesSensationsResemblanceInsensible Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.” WorldDiesDyingSweetHardestSensationsSensuousPlacid Author:Eddie Rickenbacker
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.” HardEnoughSpiritReadingSweetGreedSensesSensationsGood LifePassagesWriting LifeGood DayShortage Author:Annie Dillard
“And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.” WayFeelsFirstsBodyMightGrowsPleasureFocusSweetKissingMouthsAll ThingsBlindLaysLipsSatisfactionDefinedGrassTortureSensationsDistractionPreciseAngleGreedyDeafClamor Author:Jeanette Winterson