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Quotes About Sensibility

El kitsch provoca dos lágrimas de emoción, una inmediatamente después de la otra. La primera lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso, los niños corren por el césped! La segunda lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso es estar emocionado junto con toda la humanidad al ver a los niños corriendo por el césped!
~ Milan Kundera
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
~ William Butler Yeats
I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.
~ Frank Oz
Strano come certi ridicoli rituali appaiano perfettamente sensati quando si è innamorati.
~ Alexandra Adornetto, Hades
The fact that....you categorize everything as either sexist, or racist, or homophobic, whether it is or not, and therefore harmful to you and you just can't take it, is a kind of mania, a delusion, a psychosis that we have been coddling, encouraging people to think that life should be a smooth utopia built only for them and their fragile sensibility.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.
~ Terry Goodkind
Your words are you. You are them and not much more. The Description: the fieldness of fields, the weediness of weeds… When is description mere? Never. A freshness in the seeing, an innocency in the vision, the angle of perception, the bringing together of details, not necessarily as metaphors, even, just as objects. Be one of those on whom, as Lawrence said, nothing is lost. Don't strain for arrangement. Look and put it down and let your sensibility be the sieve.
~ Theodore Roethke
I am keen to do roles that are down-to-earth, appealing, and sensitive.
~ Manisha Koirala
I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt over my head and kick off my shoes. "What more could a woman ask?
~ Karen Marie Moning
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. "I am a terribly modern person," she decided.
~ Kate Williams
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
~ G. K. Chesterton
an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind and sensible he may be.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
La diferencia entre la novela y la filosofía nace de que la novela es una producción de sensibilidad, sumerge en una mezcla de deseos los códigos de los signos arbitrariamente construidos, y, en el momento en el que este sistema se disuelve y se transforma en células, aparece la vida. Entonces se asiste a la gestación y al nacimiento, lo cual es aún más interesante que los juegos del espíritu, pero, al igual que la vida, no responde a ninguna finalidad.
~ Gao Xingjian
That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he endeavored so to do, he had no need of a director to advise him, but that he needed much a Confessor to absolve him. That he was very sensible of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration.
~ Brother Lawrence
That he was very sensible of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration.
~ Brother Lawrence
Only in the late eighteenth century, with Burke and his theory of the sublime, Wordsworth and his mountains, Rousseau and his thoughts on Nature, did any sense of the romantic appeal of such wilderness areas begin in Europe. But having discovered such a sensibility ourselves, there has always been a reluctance to ascribe it to any other culture, let alone one which might have come to it before us.
~ Hugh Thomson
Jer,u tome sigurno i jest stvar:bit ?e bolji lije?nik jer je ?itao književnost.Kakva sve duboka objašnjenja njegova preina?ena senzibilnost može iš?itati iz ljudske patnje,iz samouništavaju?e gluposti ili puke zle sre?e koja je ljude natjerala u bolest!Ro?enje,smrt i krhkost izme?u njih.Uspon i pad-to je lije?nikov posao,a to je i književnost.
~ Ian Mcewan
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It's a tricky thing to play mental illness or being connected to a higher sensibility.
~ Daniel Zovatto
I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.
~ James Cameron
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
~ Henry Grunwald
To copy faults is want of sense.
~ Charles Churchill
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.
~ Karsten Harries