Quotes About Sensitivity

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work.

OJ says you only feel your skin at your best and worst moments so right now I can feel all of my skin, on my fingers, on my face, full of itch and fire.

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

To love someone. What does it mean?" "To be at the same level of sensitivity."

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

I love you, yes, oh Shivering One!

Maybe I can feel today because I'm dying. And my last words will be: I felt.

sometimes it's not necessary to know what elephants or people are thinking, as long as one honors what they are feeling.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Such meticulousness was touching, as though Maggie poured into the house all the tenderness that was rebuffed by those she lived with.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

There's beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.