Quotes About Sensitivity

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

This was what love did. It unhinged you.

The sort of taxation tried in America, that of taxing everything, and seeing what every thing would yield, could not have been tried under a Government delicately and quickly sensitive to public opinion.

Discretion is the best form of calculation.

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.

Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

Non ero triste per qualcosa in particolare, piangevo per tante cose insieme.

I'm extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

Les mots sont toujours trop abrupts, ils éteignent ce qu'il y a de plus précieux dans ces fragiles étincelles.

Me habían criado con amor, pero siempre me había sentido sola.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume.

Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

What we consume is not just what we put into our body, but what we put into our heart and our consciousness. Eat wisely.

she felt incredibly fragile, which was not how she liked to feel.

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.

If you have something to give -- throw it out of the window; The one who needs it will come along with eyes bent on the ground.

Here's the thing. Here's the thing I hate: His concern is like a really warm drink when your body is cold, and you feel it go all the way down your throat and then into your stomach, where it pools and spreads out. But the problem is, that cold is good . Cold is numb . And when you're numb, you can't feel pain. You can't feel pain until some stupid warm drink makes you not numb anymore and then you can feel again.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

People say things unintentionally, not realizing that it could hurt someone's feelings because they've just never experienced what you have.

For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is really hard. People that are sensitive, you just feel too porous sometimes. There's this inertia that sets in, and it's hard to get out of bed. I think knowing that other people go through it is really reassuring.