Quotes About Sensitivity

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

She touched it delicately with her fingertips in several places, not in any effort to smooth it but rather in the furtive, half-conscious way that he himself had sometimes touched his pimples at sixteen, just to make sure the horrible things were still there.

Emily knew she was going to cry. She tried to avert it with a childhood trick that had sometimes worked before - pressing both thumbnails hard into the tender flesh beneath the nails of her index fingers, so that the self-inflicted pain might be greater than the ache of her swelling throat - but it was no use.

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up

His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of goose bumps appeared. How did he keep doing this to me? Marcus—who made every girl in the world swoon—had zero effect on me. But one whisper of a touch from Adrian completely undid me.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

It?s not just the dress or the hair. It?s you. You?re beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.?

You're so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place.

You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.

The young man clasped his hands together tight on his lap, hugging himself with his elbows. It seemed as though suddenly he was feeling very cold.

He was a deep thinker from an early age; it was a problem that would plague him throughout his life - he could be overly sensitive and prone to thinking about things too much.

first-class noticer"—cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, experiencing "enchanting reality" as a new and fortuitous gift—is crucial to any creative process.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.

In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

Van Gogh could see 28 shades of black. Why?

We can talk meaningfully about the tuned-in but not about the not-yet-tuned-in.

There are times when you must stop analyzing and depend on your emotions.

So. Ixnay on the direct approach.

I went over to the big couch and sat down next to Mimi. She was watching everything the way a goldfish watches the world from its bowl, all big eyes and vulnerability and with an assumption of invisibility.