Quotes About Sensitivity

Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.

That was another thing hearing people did—made too-large movements. It was tantamount to shouting.)

People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they're the ones with the problem.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

Il a l'âme bouleversée de ceux qui furent élevés à se taire.

When he spoke his voice had a curious softness that I did not remember having heard before, like a sigh after the passage of some terrible pain.

And Clara was devastated. She had as yet grown no hedge around the little rose garden of her extreme sensibility; she was still absurdly vulnerable. She

Haar zenuwen waren als koorden gespannen en trilden onder Betsy's beledigingen als onder ruwe handen.

En medio del ruido, la suciedad, los humos y el riesgo de accidentes, me parecían personas muy sensibles, de una humanidad innata y con una maravillosa capacidad de organización y de percepción de la realidad inmediata. Siempre me hicieron sentir bienvenido y cómodo [...] mi estancia en las fábricas fue una de las experiencias más significativas de mi vida.

True Strength is delicate.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it less insulting.

the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.

Hurt feelings," said Lacoste. "I'd rather have a bruise any day.

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out. Before

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it any less insulting.

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

Alles van waarde is weerloos, wordt van aanraakbaarheid rijk.

Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

the fact that it's unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them,

the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings

dogs can be trained to predict their owners' epileptic fits, but not the other way around

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.