SENSE in Classic Quotes

1  But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

2  A tingling long-lost sense of pleasure often came across me during this journey.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

3  Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

4  Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

6  My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

7  But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

8  There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

9  He was always the saddest of the group, and even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

10  From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

11  Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

12  A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

13  A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

14  I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession, an incident which would doubtless have occasioned some surprise had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

15  It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

16  Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

17  My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21