Quotes About Sensitivity

As a poet, I want to use language to enter that space of feeling." —

al corazón no se le dan órdenes, decía, el corazón se rompe, y si se le dice que no se rompa se rompe igualmente, como el mío...

I'd done my practicum in one of the city's biggest shelters, witnessing the kinds of trauma no human would survive. The one lesson in all that? Animals feel. They're just as sensitive as we are, maybe more.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

The accusation can be made only by conflating the CCP with Chinese people so that being anti-CCP must mean being anti-Chinese. (It's exactly what the CCP wants us to think.) It's a cheap accusation, but it serves as an effective silencing device in this country because of the widespread, and quite proper, sensitivity to inflaming racial tensions.

But the time has already arrived when such a joke does not register as funny. What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?

The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.

Ich schäme mich nicht, wenn ich sage, das Taschentuch war der einzige Mensch, der sich im Lager um mich kümmerte. Ich bin mir sicher, auch heute noch. Manchmal kriegen die Dinge eine Zartheit, eine monströse, die man von ihnen nicht erwartet.

Criticism has hurt him for he is not insensitive. He is merely inarticulate.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Is it not wonderful, then, that we should be so sensitive upon the discovery of a fault which must of necessity be common to all, and that in its highest degree?

And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.

But he thinks, no, none of us can stand anything. Scrape our skin, and beneath it there is an infant, howling.

The worst moment came when Julie bleated, "Mom, Mom," sounding as plaintive as some lamb separated from the flock.

The very worst thing, she was certain, was not human misery, but its nakedness, and the naked witness of others.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

You don´t need a reason to cry. All you need to feel the warmth that dwells in your chest.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.

hurt more easily than anything nice.

Exactly,' Cardan says, reaching out a finger to trace the shape of my ear. The curve, I realise. I shudder, eyes closing against the hot spike of shame. He keeps talking, but he seems to realise what he's been doing and snatches his hand away. Now we're both ashamed.

He ought to have been taught better than to let his emotions show on his face. Instead, he assumed that others would care about his feelings, so he didn't bother to hide them.

Las personas generosas son malos comerciantes. David tenía uno de esos caracteres pudorosos y afectivos que se espantan ante una discusión y que ceden en el momento en que el adversario les toca la fibra sensible.