The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other read more

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other read more

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

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

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