Taste And Smell Quotes:

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- e. e. cummings

topic: Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony, Chrome, Chisels

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

source: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

topic: Smell, Noses, Mouths, Composites, Taste And Smell

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

- Steve Hagen

source: Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.112, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Smell, Taste, Mindfulness, Taste And Smell

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Past, Essence, Smell, Taste And Smell

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

- Hippocrates

topic: Knowledge, Men, Smell, Sensations, Taste And Smell

Wake up and smell the coffee.

- Ann Landers

source: Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 1955.

topic: Coffee, Espresso, Smell, Cranberries, Morning Coffee

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

- Frank Schoonmaker

topic: Wine, Piano, Smell, Written Language, Superlatives

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Garden, Smell, Taste, Mint, Taste And Smell

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

- Heinz Kohut

source: Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press

topic: Men, Smell, Empathy, Taste And Smell

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Spring, Garden, March Poems, Spring Day

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Song, Taste And Smell

Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Self, Smell, Sight, Self Awareness, Taste And Smell

First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.

- Kate del Castillo

topic: Thinking, Hair, Smell, Taste And Smell

Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

- R. D. Laing

source: R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.19, Penguin UK

topic: Thinking, Smell, Self, Truth And Love, Deluded

My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.

- Eddie Izzard

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Gay, Men, Transvestites, Taste And Smell

It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses with evidence of non-physical reality. It cannot be done. The five senses; sight,hearing, taste and smell together form a single sensory system whose object of detection is physical reality. This cannot detect non-physical reality. Humankind is beginning to be able to access data the 5 senses cannot provide.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Reality, Sight, Data, Life After Death, Taste And Smell

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Running, Thinking, Views, Always Running, Taste And Smell

• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

- Marya Hornbacher

topic: Two, Smell, Numbers, Tactile, Taste And Smell