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Quotes About Sensitivity

Folk are easy hurt, no doubt about that. Easy wounded. Easy broken.
~ Juliet Marillier
No somos tan insensibles como para confundir los hombres vivos y los hombres ya procesados en rebanadas y salchichas.
~ K?b? Abe
pre-Islamic period jahiliyyah, which is usually translated as "the time of ignorance." But the primary meaning of the root JHL is "irascibility"—an acute sensitivity to honor and prestige, excessive arrogance, and, above all, a chronic tendency to violence and retaliation.4
~ Karen Armstrong
When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.
~ Karen Ehman
It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant jokes about themselves, or exaggerate their difficulties in so dramatic a way that they will appear funny, while they are at the same time absurdly sensitive to any criticism. In these instances humor is used to take the sting out of an otherwise unbearable shame.
~ Karen Horney
No matter how much of it I've seen, other people's grief leaves me feeling embarrassed, as if I've peeked through their bedroom windows.
~ Kat Richardson
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
~ Peter Ustinov
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
~ Petrus Borel
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
~ Pliny the Elder
I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
~ Antonio Banderas
Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.
~ Harry Morgan
To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
~ Henry Miller
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
~ Jean Paul
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
~ Edward Young
Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
~ George Eliot
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
~ Joyce Brothers
Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.
~ Libba Bray
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
~ George Horace Lorimer
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
~ George Horace Lorimer
The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.
~ Gilles Marini
Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
~ Graham Greene
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
~ Sylvester Stallone