Quotes About Sensitivity

Other people's tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation.

Sorry.' He lowered his head and sniffed the floor. But, reader, he was not smelling. He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear.

Those tears were jewels to crown the heart of any singer, and I shall never forget them.

Sometimes the good moments hurt much more than the bad.

Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.

I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.

Grief, however, creates a strange sensitivity. The world is too intense to tolerate: a veil, a drink, another anesthetic is required to blot out the ache of what remains. One sees too much and feels it, as Robert Lowell puts it, with one skin-layer missing.

He was low-key, I was intense; things that cut me to the quick he was able to sail by with scarcely a notice; he was slow to anger, I quick; the world registered gently upon him, sometimes not at all, whereas I was fast to feel both pleasure and pain.

His wife maintains she can tell whether or not Jim is in the house simply by the amount of energy she feels in the air. But

An exuberant temperature by no means leads inevitably, or even usually, to shallowness, but the potential is there. Subtleties and sustained thought can be lost in a swirl of vivacious moods and energies, just as monomaniacal enthusiasm can limit awareness of and sensitivity to the perspective, needs, and contributions of other people.

Sometimes,' She said, 'at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I'm glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara'" (Ishiguro 23).

Sometimes,' She said, 'at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I'm glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara

I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.

Ninguem sabia o quanto ela o amava. Amava-o, porque ele a devolvera à vida. Ela vivia como uma lagarta dentro de um casulo, e Jack obrigara-a a sair cá para fora e mostrara-lhe que, afinal, era uma borboleta. (...) acordando o amor que jazia latente no seu coração, teria passado o resto da vida insensível às alegrias e penas do amor.

Walli's sister came into the room. Lili was almost three years younger, and these days he was not sure how to treat her. For as long as he could remember she had been a pain in the neck, like a younger boy but sillier. However, lately she had become more sensible and, to complicate matters, some of her friends had breasts.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.