Quotes About Sensitivity

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

E porque razão, uma cega inclinação e um cruel destino, persistem quase sempre em prender-nos àqueles que só a outros são sensíveis?

Most people have a perceptual tripwire which registers the trespass of another's focused interest.

Empaths Do It With Fühlung.

Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.

to glide gently into facile hands that would deform him.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

One day, I'm gonna make the onions cry...