Quotes About Sensitivity

When it comes to beliefs, it is a very tricky situation, because it can be anything and still you don't want to hurt anyone's beliefs.

I have never deliberately tried to hurt someone's sentiments.

What kind of woman tries to fat-shame a heavily pregnant woman?

What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.

There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student's unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable. In most instances though, trigger warnings are not a manifestation of justified empathy but are symptomatic of an ailing culture.

Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No. But I understand why people desire it.

Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I'm a true believer that if someone bothers you, you care.

For me to play any true person in a film based on a true story, I always want to make sure that it doesn't mock and it certainly doesn't trivialize the events that took place.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's fine. If it's about me, I think it's totally insensitive!

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.