Senses

Famous quotes containing the word senses:

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been, my senses would have cooled
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in’t. I have supped full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“When the mind’s free,
The body’s delicate; this tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else,
Save what beats there—filial ingratitude!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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 (1713–84)