Quotes About Sensitivity

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves — in this case this means not subjecting her to the indignities of judgement and competition.

It is not only in academia and on the remnants of the Left that you encounter the argument that to prefer democracy to tyranny in other cultures, or the rights of women to the demands of misogynist clerics, is to announce yourself as insensitive brute or interfering imperialist.

You'd have to be dead to be impervious to that rhythm.

She reached out as if to touch me and for a second I thought I felt her fingers on my cheek, then realized I was crying.

I meant simply to steady her, but she softened into me, almost sagged, and my arm tightened, and my need, and she let herself go so that I was half holding her up with one arm and pulling her pants down with the other.

She laid her hand, brief and light as a drift of hawthorn blossom, on Hild's head.

They are noisy; their untidy feet snap twigs and kick stones without heed for what might hear.

The sense of the world shifting was so strong she swayed in the saddle.

She cocked her head slightly as though listening to a voice only she could hear.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

The technification of the world blunts one's sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons: you rely on them, even become part of the season itself, and each time they change, it seems to have to tear yourself away from a place where you have learned to live.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

In a certain Russian ministerial department—— But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was. There are in the whole of Russia no persons more sensitive than Government officials. Each of them believes if he is annoyed in any way, that the whole official class is insulted in his person.

An emotional sort. As if there is any other kind of human.

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak, I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks.

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

She doesn't like looking straight at things. She's a peripheral person.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.