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Quotes About Sensitivity

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
~ Helen Keller
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
~ Nancy Astor
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
~ Daniel Handler
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.
~ Pema Chodron
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
~ James Dickey, Self-Interviews
You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.
~ Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.
~ Tim Vine
Why do we have to humiliate someone to crack a joke??? Do what u would like people to do with u..
~ honeya
When Your Smile At Someone's Misery, Its Does Not Shows Your Tolerance. Its Reveals lack of Tears For Feeling.
~ Yaganesh Derasari
If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.
~ Alan Rogers, Lyam's Journal
Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures
~ Pierre Lemaitre, Alex
Sorry. Didn't mean to step on any dead toes.
~ J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
~ Chinua Achebe
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
~ Jane Addams
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
~ Hannah More
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.
~ Larry Gelbart
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
~ Elle Fanning
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
~ Mieczyslaw Jastrun