It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings considered as psychical elements is naturally the attitude of psychology at large.

The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.