Quotes About Sensitivity

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Being a highly sensetive person is followed by a lot of infinity pain and grief.

Being in love is to be half-cooked inside an eggshell called love.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

nerdier, more sensitive bunch who weren't interested in perpetuating the malice and exclusion they had felt growing up.

nerdier, more sensitive bunch who weren't interested in perpetuating the malice and exclusion they had felt growing up. "People made me feel bad when I was a kid," says Pedersen, "so why would I want to go out of my way to make people feel rotten, like somehow they don't belong or they don't cut the mustard?

People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way—hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs.

She can't go in there," he says firmly. "It isn't appropriate." "See this, sweetness?" Bina has fished out her badge. "I'm like a cash gift. I'm always appropriate.

In my innocent cynicism I didn't see that Cleveland was not trying to look tough; he just didn't care. Which is to say, he knew what he was, and was, if not content with, at least resigned to knowing that he was an alcoholic. And an alcoholic is nothing if not sensitive to the proper time and place for his next drink; his death is one of the most carefully planned and prepared for events in the world.

She gave him her hand then, and he took it in his own. For an instant, his felt much drier and more callused than she remembered, and then it felt exactly the same.

He could feel her tiny heart beating. It seemed quick and desperate, like a whispered prayer.

pain ignited by their indifference

It wasn't hard to imagine why this might be—a heightened sensitivity to pain was helpful to survival. "Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle," they wrote.

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

I found her message heart-breaking in its cautiousness.

The important thing is to be able to live in a place or a situation where you must use your sixth sense all the time.