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Quotes About Sensitivity

Being nice to someone you have an issue with doesn't mean you are fake...it means someone taught you how to be polite.
~ Unknown
I don't think you realize the power you have over me. The way just one word from you can make me feel amazing...or like crap.
~ Unknown
Challenges in life are their to make you know your strength and your ability to come out from obstacle with grace and unscratched.It makes you more sensitive and inculcates virtue to react with courage and confidence. Every struggle shapes you as a person of strong will power who takes any eventuality with determination and finish it with a logical conclusion.
~ Unknown
He is a connoisseur of pain.
~ Madeline Miller
They would both have run screaming at the first tooth. They cannot bear any pain at all. They are not like us.
~ Madeline Miller
I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.
~ Madeline Miller
We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. We ought to, but we don't—or at least, we don't quite as readily. But the more you do, the more quickly you can recognize the feeling when it comes around again, and hopefully you won't need to stare as long.
~ Maggie Nelson
This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.
~ Maggie Nelson
Skin is soft; it takes what you do to it.
~ Maggie Nelson
Mother said that no parent in their right mind would display a portrait like that. Esme was not at all contrite. The chair was so uncomfortable, she said, there were two springs digging into my leg. She was funny like that, always so ridiculously oversensitive. She was like that princess in the story about the pea and all the mattresses. Is there a pea, I would say to her when she thrashed about in the bed at night, trying to get comfortable, and she would say, whole pods of them
~ Maggie O'Farrell
And there is a soreness to her body, it aches, her head feels softened, muzzy. She has acquired a disturbingly acute sense of smell. The odour of print from a magazine someone is reading across a room can oppress her. She knows what will be on their plates at lunch just from sniffing the air. She can walk down the middle of the ward and can tell who has bathed this week and who has not.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
When he took my hand he taught me something about the value of touch, the communicative power of the human hand.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Boys don't cry, but men do.
~ Malorie Blackman
A word Dad had used. But it was a word that had hurt my best friend. A word that was now hurting me so very, very much. I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this.
~ Malorie Blackman
We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.
~ Mamoru Oshii
As in if-the-van-is-a-rockin'-don't-come-a-knockin'?" asked Austin.
~ Mandy M. Roth
La sang li circula veloç, la carn se li esponja, humida, i és arreu que se sent fràgil perquè és tota ella que l'estima.
~ Unknown
And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive too, if he's got a mind to? ... - But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.
~ Manuel Puig
And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of behavior can get in a man's way. —When? When it comes to torturing?" —No, when it comes to being finished with the torturers." —But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.
~ Manuel Puig
That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.
~ Maria Irene Fornes
Y yo no supe cómo el abandono de aquel gesto pudo despertar tanta ternura en mí, ni por qué me fue tan dulce el tibio contacto de tu piel
~ Unknown
chronic sinus complaints, nasal or lung congestion, postnasal drip, digestive sensitivity, headaches, multiple allergies, and dry skin, you are a great candidate to experiment with a diet free of all milk and dairy-containing products
~ Marc David
Keira avait raison, le plus petit détail réveille la douleur
~ Marc Levy
Take what you will from that story, but remember the bottom line: if people don't want to know about something, don't tell them about it.
~ Marc MacYoung