Quotes About Sensitivity

My skin is hypersensitive, so I use powdered sunscreen by Colorescience. I don't know how I lived without it.

I wear sunscreen every single day - I just don't go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

When was the last time you were super offended? I might be like, 'That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!' Or, 'It's not my thing,' or, 'It was a stupid joke.' But there's such a sensitivity now. Political correctness has become really insidious.

We don't know the contour of feeling; we only know what molds it from without.

It is good to hear all of this and to see it and to seize it, not to become numb toward it but on the contrary: everything is to be felt in countless ways in all its variations yet without losing ourselves to it.

Here I feel that there is no one anywhere who can answer for you those questions and feelings which, in their depths, have a life of their own; for even the most articulate people are unable to help, since what words point to is so very delicate, is almost unsayable.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.

I care so much I'm sick.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer.

Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over.

Il faut que vous compreniez que notre civilisation est si vaste que nous ne pouvons nous permettre d'inquiéter et de déranger les minorités. (...) Les gens veulent être heureux, d'accord? (...) Les noirs n'aiment pas Little Black Sambo, brûlons le. La Case De L'oncle Tom met les blancs mal à l'aise, brûlons le. Quelqu'un a écrit un livre sur le tabac et le cancer des poumons? Les fumeurs pleurnichent? Brûlons le livre.

Alcune persone diventano tristi quando sono ancora terribilmente giovani. Senza una ragione specifica, a quanto pare, ma sembrano nati per questo. Si feriscono più facilmente, si stancano prima, piangono più velocemente, si ricordano tutto per più tempo e, come ho detto, diventano tristi più presto di chiunque altro al mondo. Lo so, perché sono uno di loro.

If there is no feeling, there cannot be great art.

Or did you have your fingernails honed on a whetsone, my darling?

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son.

and yet the fact remains that the youth today is more sensitive than ever. I admit I don't know how to understand this phenomenon and have sought to approach it "economically," asking the question of whether an increase in sensitivity has brought about a decrease in discrimination, or whether a decrease in discrimination has brought about an increase in sensitivity to when, where, and how it occurs.

Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic

I became sensitive, or at least hypocritical.

Not hearing impaired but just not hearing which is a way of not caring.)

as men were smudged and stained by crying.

Why is the misery of a child so hilarious to other children?