Quotes About Sensitivity

I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

Sentimental is not bad, but it's probably the most likely to go awry. It's the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don't want it to be maudlin.

I'm not going to make fun of something that has badly traumatized someone's life.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

When he was thirteen, he used an anti-Semitic epithet to describe a Jewish friend. Thinking of the moment more than seven decades later, Bush volunteered the story and cried, shaken by guilt over a remark made in the 1930s. He shook his head in wonder at his own insensitivity. "Never forgotten it. Never forgotten it." (The classmate remained a Bush friend and supporter for many years.)

only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Only humans can cry tears.

Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference.

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when explanations were impossible.

I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal.

What's weird, I said, is that I've never seen you cry. He said, I cry all the time.

But it's actually pretty easy to say horrible things: retard, cunt, whatever. In a way, it's even easier because we know exactly how bad the words are. There's nothing scary about them. Part of what makes something really hard to say is the not knowing.

I pulled the book from him.     It was wet with tears running down the pages, as if the book itself were crying.     He hid his face in his hands.     Let me see you cry, I told him. I do not want to hurt you, he said by shaking his head left to right. It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me, I told him.     Let me see you cry.

As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod: Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turned strictly vegetarian.

What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination by funny voice. You can mock an accent with impunity, and everyone does

Tu caricia es suave, pero tu mirada es la intención personificada.

Physical wounds don't matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn't bear

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.