Quotes About Sensitivity

And in that silence he began to hear the world crying.' - Chaim Potok, The Chosen

Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

A woman is very sensitive and knows exactly when she is loved or not. Mere words don't work.

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

I know a lot of fans like the beginnings of 'The X Factor' where you get all the crazy people and everything, but for me it's almost like taking the mickey out of people with mental illnesses.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities.

It does not take more than one thoughtless phrase to hurt someone.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

People rate themselves more favorably on amorphous traits like sensitivity and idealism (at the 73rd percentile, on average) than on relatively straightforward traits like thriftiness and being well-read (48th percentile).

the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Women were different from men in such matters. Was it that they were, instead of more sensitive, as reputed, more callous, and less romantic ; or were they more heroic?

Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.

Her back seemed to be endowed with a sensitiveness to occular beams...

She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood. Gabriel sheared on, constrained and sad.

And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

La Belleza, es, pues, el camino del hombre sensible hacia el espíritu...

The true sensitive is the one that can share in the man's hallucinations, that's all.