Quotes About Sensibility

This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.

Writing to Sutton in mid-December, he made a show of disdain for the duties of his new position: 'I am entirely unassisted in my labours, and spend most of my time handing out tripey novels to morons. I feel it is not at all a suitable occupation for a man of acute sensibility and genius.

If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!

People who can't make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race," was one of his pet theories.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

It's a magpie aesthetic: If something is hideous, that's interesting. It's kind of the same sensibility that Andy Warhol had. He was interested in everything and soaked up what he saw like a sponge.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

Laszlo Kovacs was marvelous. He was very much in the same school as Bill Frake, who was, of course, a great cinematographer as well. They had a very similar style and similar sensibility.

Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.

Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom. To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul. — NAOMI WOLF

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted. She cared naught for living in the moment, but apparently her body was sensible. It wanted to breathe.

The first time she slit a man's throat she felt sick to her stomach. The second time? Not so much.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.