Quotes About Synaesthesia

#1. synaesthesia - the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

David Lagercrantz

#2. INTO HER DARKNESS, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek. She was unconscious, and he was barred from her dreams.

William Gibson

#3. I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour..
... On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden ...

Fernando Pessoa

#4. Freedom shouldn't move like an arrow, in a singular direction. It should flow like an ocean, swallowing the whole horizon.

Romina Russell

#5. The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

Megan Hart

#6. In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot

#7. It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which colours the vague bliss of profoundly felt convalescence.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Jay Chiat

#11. Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

Megan Hart

#12. Warlock: Four thousand and fifty-three metric tons of inert rock, metal and organic matter, frozen solid.
Quasar: Frozen in what?
Drax: Time.
Quasar: "Time", Drax?
Drax: Uh-huh. Old, old frozen time.
Quasar: Right. And that tastes like what?
Drax: Regret.

Dan Abnett

#13. I'm going to be the luckiest asshole in the world when she finally lets me love her.

Jay McLean

#14. The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness

Pessoa

#15. I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

Thomas Hobbes

#16. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#17. When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Jean-Claude Duvalier