Quotes About Sensitivity

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Marius, will you stop this game of being weary and bored and show some feeling for once. And put your quizzing glass down, for goodness' sake. I know you can see perfectly well without it.

And I believe he has suffered in his life. He has a sensitivity to the hurts of others that can have come only from personal experience.

He took my hand with an indifferent aggressive snatch. It felt like he could have put his hand through my rib cage, grabbed my heart, squeezed it's little to see how it felt, then let it go.

Today I'm Yours." It was a crude and romantic song. But human feeling is crude and romantic.

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

If you can hear the trees in their easy hours of course you can also hear them later, crying out at the sawmill.

What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.

Hydrogen sulfide is as lethal, molecule for molecule, as cyanide. This may explain why humans evolved such exquisite sensitivity to its smell.

i'm a creature of fine sensations

psychic abilities", or ability to read people based

No poet is ever really young... Their delicate ears always hear the far-off whisper of death, which coarser souls must travel towards for years before their duller senses touch....

If this animal is to be protected, why not that identical one, too? If it is cruelty to confine or mistreat a dog, a cat, or even a pet lamb or pig, why is it not cruelty to confine and mistreat millions of equally sensitive animals at Smithfield, IBP, ConAngra, and other such places? When we speak of the unavoidable severity of livestock production or laboratory experiments or trapping, and so on, just how rigorously are we defining unavoidable?

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said see you later than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.

He was paying attention. It felt foreign, a little embarrassingly intimate, but kind of great. My eyes filled up.

I wish I'd remembered not to use it around other people, because it was kind of our word.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter of his words or actions, it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being.

the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

am reminded of James Baldwin's claim that "Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil . . .