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Quotes About Sensitivity

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.
~ Panda Bear
I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
~ Zac Efron
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
~ Gwen John
I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.
~ Jared Leto
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The day is conscious of itself.
~ Rumi
Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . .
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I did not love less; indeed I loved more. But the weight of love, like that of an arm thrown tenderly across a chest, becomes little by little too heavy to bear.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by their frailty or their excess of strength constantly to resort to the arduous disciplines of the mind.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
More sensitive to Rome's prejudices than I was aware, I recalled that although they grant sensuality a rôle they see only shameful folly in love;
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Pienso que es peligroso, para un adolescente muy sensible como yo era entonces, aprender a ver el amor a través de los sueños de las jovencitas, incluso cuando son puras y él crees serlo también
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Les pires exemples de férocité ne servent jamais qu'à durcir chez l'auditeur quelques fibres de plus, et comme le cÅ"ur humain a déjà à peu près la mollesse d'une pierre, je ne crois pas nécessaire de travailler plus dans ce sens. (p. 140)
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
~ Marian Keyes
Political correctness is a minefield
~ Marian Keyes
Few authers feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel
~ Marie Corelli
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
~ Marilyn Monroe
She wept easily. This did not mean that she felt things more deeply than others did. It certainly did not mean that she was fragile or sentimental or ready to bring that sodden leverage to bear on the slights that came with being the baby of the family.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Kindly intentioned, but not considerate.
~ Marilynne Robinson
When you're scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it's kindly meant. Now
~ Marilynne Robinson
Algunos hombres, algunas mujeres, tienen una sensibilidad más intensa que otros, sienten y perciben cosas que a los demás nos pasan desapercibidas.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Ser cosmopolita no significa ser indiferente a un país, y ser sensible a otros, no. Significa la generosa ambición de querer ser sensible a todos los países y a todas las épocas, el deseo de eternidad…».
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Desde luego que tiene sentido hacer literatura, porque la literatura puede ser, además de algo que produce placer, que estimula la imaginación, que enriquece la sensibilidad, puede ser una manera de hacer tomar conciencia de la problemática social al público lector y al gran público en general».
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Sentirse seguro sobre sus derechos es fundamental para que exista una sociedad libre. Pero los jueces han sido sensibles a la corrupción y la administración de justicia
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.
~ Marisha Pessl