Quotes About Sensitivity

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

His stuff . . . Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved into giggles. "Long, get it?" "My brother, everyone." George bowed to an invisible crowd with a martyred expression. "A refined and sensitive creature.

When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn into a state of enhanced sensitivity made of friendship and disdain for the world and eternity

L'uomo deve mostrare bontà di cuore verso gli animali, perché chi usa essere crudele verso di essi è altrettanto insensibile verso gli uomini.

Tutto era meglio della musica, perché solo la musica abolisce le differenze di lingua o di abitudini fra due esseri e tocca fibre sensibilissime.

Don't tease me. Everything wounds me now except perfect kindness.

How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.

He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.

Ludens was continually aware of his father's distress.

At the very thought he felt a tendency to tremble.

Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.

Pain did curious things to him. It made him sensitive to the pain of others.

But I still can't quite grasp what you're telling me. I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

Estaba segura de que debía ser un hombre feo, tal vez enfermo o contrahecho, porque le parecía imposible que una sensibilidad tan profunda y una inteligencia tan precisa se sumara un aspecto atrayente.

Se debe tener mucho cuidado con los nombres de las personas y los seres vivos, porque al pronunciarlos se toca su corazón y entramos dentro de su fuerza vital

En la tenue claridad de la luna cada uno adivinó el amor en los ojos del otro.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.