Quotes About Sensibility

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

To know is not less than to feel.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the LUXURY of an emotion without paying for it.

És bela. Estar contigo é um dom como o de ver, como o dom de ouvir. Insensato seria estar junto de ti e não fruir o que és.

Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.

Las emociones, por definición, no son razonables.

Monet is only an eye—but what an eye!

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.

Oh, Rabbit, no. Not that. I only want to be sensible and listen to myself." "Enjoy yourself, then," he said flatly. "I've heard enough." He went off to bed, slamming the door as he entered our room.

Cuando el amor no es locura,no es amor.