Quotes About Sensibility

Porque no se había animado a aceptar que la vida es otra cosa, que la vida es aquello que no puede hacerse en compañía de mujeres fieles ni hombres sensatos, porque había cerrado los ojos y se había entregado, como los demás

Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.

tiny movements that spoke volumes and seemed to envelop them in a fine mist of Pretty.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

To elude nature, to refuse her friendship, and attempt to leap the river of life in the hope of finding God on the other side, is the common error of a perverted mysticality. It is as fatal in result as the opposite error of deliberately arrested development, which, being attuned to the wonderful rhythms of natural life, is content with this increase of sensibility; and, becoming a "nature-mystic," asks no more.

This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with enough sensibility to see them, that it is possible to thrive in adversity in the needs of the rulers are pandered to.

Alcides Gómez es un hombre sensible. Tan perdidamente marica, que ve un muchacho bonito y se le salen las lágrimas.

Cómo iba a verme en un viejo que lagrimea oyendo «Un Rayito de Luna» de Los Panchos! Por la puerta mal cerrada de mi sensibilidad, una noche se me coló la música del mundo hasta el mero corazón.

With each new woman that a man is attracted to there appears to come a broadening of the outlook, or, if you like, an acquiring of new territory. A turn of the eyebrow, a tone of the voice, a queer characteristic gesture—all these things, and it is these things that cause to arise the passion of love.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

Music lends grace and dignity to life; it softens care, alleviates regrets, refines and enlivens sensibility, links the ideal to the actual, and suggests a flow of life in unison with its harmonies.

She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then.

Marie Laurencin.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.