Quotes About Sensitivity

I think it's a shame when people don't see the funny, thoughtful Mark that I know. He is incredibly sensitive and really cares about what other people need and want and really wants to be able to make someone else's day. And that's the Mark that I see.

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

An empath has a gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be someone else.

Empaths are driven to constantly seek more spiritual truth. We're fascinated by those aspects of life that are the least obvious, the most secret, sacred, and tender. Our search is helped by sensitivity, yet not defined by it.

she told me that it was okay to be sensitive but that this world wasn't kind to people like me.

Any harsh words – spoken or even read somewhere – made me cringe and caused physical pain.

I wasn't schizophrenic. I wasn't bi-polar. I wasn't dealing with long-term mental illness. I was a sensitive artistic-type who'd been through severe trauma and needed immediate help.

had chewed and swallowed it, he said: "I don't generally let the language flow around here. People, the richer they get, the more they dislike to hear a Negro express himself in well-chosen words. I guess they feel there's no point in being rich unless you can feel superior to somebody. I study English on the college level, but if I talked that way I'd lose my job. People are very sensitive.

Romantic jealousy is another experience in which people become irrationally oversensitive because of implicit blows to their pride.

A solidão e o sofrimento me fizeram sensível à voz dos poetas.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

The art of shapeshifting also includes reading the energy in the room. Protect yourself from ignorance and keep out of harm's way.

There's a certain detachment sensitive people must maintain to endure the harsh realities of this world.

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren't laughing," she explained. "Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.

Olivia was by no means a snob but she was aesthetic and the details Mrs. Saunders gave about her illness were not; also Mrs. Saunders' accent--how could one help noticing with her droning on and on?--was not that of a too highly educated person...

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.