Quotes About Sensitivity

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

But he who feels too much, He soars in angels' tears of joy...

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

There is a craft and a power in listening.

One of the many annoying things about being disabled is the obligation I always feel to make you feel better about your reactions to me.

But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.

Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking "How are you feeling?" and "Do you want me to ask how you're feeling?

We've found this relationship between social perfectionism and suicidality in all populations where we've done the work, including among the disadvantaged and the affluent." What's not yet known is why. "Our hypothesis is that social perfectionists are much more sensitive to signals of failure in the environment.

If we are overly sensitive, we will be quick to anger. More generally, says Seneca, if we coddle ourselves, if we allow ourselves to be corrupted by pleasure, nothing will seem bearable to us, and the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft.