Quotes About Sensitivity

You can hurt someone and not even know it.

People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within

as long as you don't hit one of his third rails—immigration and the press are the two big ones. If you hit one, he is liable to go off on a tangent and not come back for a long time.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

In all my life, the most arrogant people that I've known have been the most sensitive. The people who have done the most in contempt of other people's opinion, and who consider themselves the highest above it, have been the most furious if it went against them. Arrogant and domineering people can't stand the least, lightest, faintest breath of criticism. It just kills them.

El nombre de una mujer me delata. Me duele una mujer en todo el cuerpo.

The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha and Bacchus; their painful embarrassment communicated itself even to the mare, the foal, the golden rays of the setting sun and the gnats buzzing and swarming around Helen's face and neck.

Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.

There are some things which have no business being put into books for all the world to read.

La infancia y la vejez se parecen. En ambos casos, por motivos diferentes, somos más bien inermes, todavía no participamos —o ya no participamos— en la vida activa y eso nos permite vivir con una sensibilidad sin esquemas, abierta.

Die Zunge geht immer dahin, wo der Zahn weh tut.

You always do that, you know," Alec said. I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?" "Bite their heads off first." I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. If you could choose, would you rather be eaten alive starting at your feet or would you want it to be over quickly?

All my life I have had my best experiences when I have responded to material with my heart before my mind.

Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I'd told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.

I love you, he murmured, his fingertips brushing my tears. Do you feel it? Yes.

he pulled her hand back up and set it over his heart) This tightening in my chest that you can't see? That's something I've never felt before. You've got something no one else has. You don't have a shortcoming, sweetheart. You have an advantage.

His hand reached up to his chest and rubbed at the area over his heart as if it hurt him.

E tu fazes-me lembrar que o meu corpo consegue sentir outas coisas que não dor.

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.

I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain Ã¢â'¬Â¦ remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.