Quotes About Sensitivity

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

No es resultado de la casualidad que los hombres intelectuales y sensibles se entreguen siempre a mujeres insensibles e inferiores y les tengan, sin embargo, apego, si la prueba de que no son amados no los cura en absoluto de sacrificarlo todo por conservar junto a ellos a una mujer así

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

After the suicide of my thoughts, they admired my intelligence; they doted on my mind. My parched imagination, my dried-up sensitivity were enough for the people who were the thirstiest for an intellectual life—their thirst being as artificial and mendacious as the source from which they believed they were quenching it!

Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn't look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, "Why's that guy looking around like that?" He'd learned not to do it.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

His body was as insensitive to pain as was his mind to subtleties.

Ha oído hablar alguna vez de manos de plantadora? —La verdad es que no, señora —Bueno, lo único que puedo decirle es lo que se siente. Cuando se eliminan los capullos que no se quieren. Entonces todo se concentra en las yemas de los dedos. Lo hacen los propios dedos. Los ves trabajar. Lo sientes. Arrancan un capullo tras otro. Sin equivocarse nunca. Se funden con la planta. ¿Comprende?

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

I am not much of a mind to touch

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

I know it's hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

The blind only wish to see, the deaf only wish to hear and the mute only wish to speak. Things that seem of just little value to us, can be ALL that someone else wants...appreciate even the little things in life...many are less fortunate.

Always try to be more sensitive about people's feelings. Because there are times that a tear means happiness and a smile means hurt.

Did you know the people that are the strongest are usually the most sensitive?

Some people feel the rain. Other's just get wet.