Quotes About Synesthesia

#1. The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures
I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Paul Theroux

#2. My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

G. Willow Wilson

#3. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

Leni Zumas

#5. Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In

Jaron Lanier

#6. Of having forgotten the colour of loves and the taste of hatreds. We thought we were immortal.

Fernando Pessoa

#7. Martian Congressional Republic Navy.

James S.A. Corey

#8. It's totally outrageous, ... for someone to take these domain names and then solicit funds, run them through what looks like a legitimate charity using pictures and other hurricane victims, when in reality that money was running to his hate sites.

Jay Nixon

#9. Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

James Geary

#10. You should quit. Cigarettes make people taste ... yellow.
Taste? Kizzy's mind did a cartwheel. Taste? Was this Jack Husk thinking about tasting her? Great God Almighty, she did not want to taste yellow if that happened, whatever yellow tasted like.

Laini Taylor

#11. I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

Leni Zumas

#12. Genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose.

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. 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

#14. The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.

Liu Xia

#15. You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

Phyllis Diller

#16. I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

Morris Gleitzman

#17. In one of the strangest types of synesthesia - there are at least three dozen - people see a word and immediately experience a taste on their tongue.

John Medina

#18. The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.

Kevin Dalton

#19. Bad answers for employment questions:
Employer: I see here that you worked for the state for three years. Why did you leave that job?
My parole was granted

Neil Leckman

#20. There is a strong link between synesthesia and photographic memory (technically called eidetic memory) or at least heightened memory (hypermnesis). Many synesthetes used their synesthesia as a mnemonic aid.

Richard E. Cytowic

#21. Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

Colonel Sanders

#22. Have been prisoner, slave, fugitive, and now king, which I prefer.

Jack Vance

#23. I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Julianna Baggott

#24. The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.

Jane Mendelsohn