“Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling.”

— Barry Long

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)
Context: Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.

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Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926–2003

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

“A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor

“You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 58
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.”

Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art

Referring to the curiosity and sense of wonder of the child, p. 17
Collected Poems (1966)

“The Conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts”

Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist

Source: Liber Kaos (1992), p. 87
Context: The Conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.

“I feel a little whirl of dislocation—the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected.”

Robin Sloan (1979) American writer

Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 16 “Codex Vitae” (p. 141)

“Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling.”

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