Quotes About Sensibility

It's a sin." "How do you know?" "Because it feels like one

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

Cuando la felicidad es demasiado grande, cuando a uno le curan de una herida demasiado mala, cuando todo es demasiado bonito, sólo hay un presentimiento que un hombre sensato pueda tener: algo está a punto de joderse.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Pensavo molte cose insensate, e non pensavo alcune cose tristemente sensate.

I'm more dramatic than other people are, or I just show it more. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have a lot of passion.

Thus the days went by at Terralba, and our sensibilities became numbed, as we felt ourselves lost between an evil and a virtue equally inhuman.

Veeva should count her blessings. Three years ago it was cocaine and a year ago it was crack and lemme tell you, that stuff you got to have. You do anything for that high." He laughed again, savoring his memories. "Where do you think the furniture went? Up my nose, that's where. She finally had me carted out of here screaming like an insane man. Spent some time in Bellevue with little sparkly bugs coming out my orifices. Compared to that being a drunk is practically a sensible existence.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

And Clara was devastated. She had as yet grown no hedge around the little rose garden of her extreme sensibility; she was still absurdly vulnerable. She

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

For Rousseau, animals clearly possessed intelligence, sensibility, even the faculty of communication. Therefore it is not reason, or affectivity, or even language that differentiates the human being. On the contrary, everyone who has a dog knows perfectly well that the dog is more sociable and even more intelligent than, in some cases, certain human beings.

Art is emotion without desire.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to be dangerous.' 'And the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art.

She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

Why are so many parsons like this? Must one excuse their defective sensibility towards their fellows because they are engrossed with God?

Knowledge will teach candour, she who aims at attainment of it will find her countenance improved as her mind is informed and her looks enabled as her heart is elevated, thus may she become a pleasing companion to the main of science, sensibility, enabled to form the minds of her kids to virtue, knowledge, not less capable or willing to superintend domestic economy of her family for having wandered beyond the limits of kitchen.

He fished steadily, trying to fight down a dragging, aching sense of loss, wondering how one's brain should know all the sensible answers while one's emotions longed for the unattainable.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Quando fu infine sistemata, ci sembrò ovviamente sensato portare a casa un grosso compagno a quattro zampe con unghie raspanti, grandi denti e limitate capacità espressive per iniziare a demolirla di nuovo.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

Aí de quando a paixão é simultaneamente modesta e arrebatada!