Quotes About Sensitivity

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films.

Lately he, too, had had moods where the sound of other people's cheerfulness grated . . .

Sometimes she found casual physical contact with men almost unbearable

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse.

Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.

maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness

What the eye sees better the heart feels more deeply.

A genius temperament should be handled with care.

Show, don't tell" means respect the intelligence and sensitivity of your audience.

He is too sensitive to be happy, too haunted by all his irresolute, cautious, mistrusted feelings.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls —Robert Walser. A German-speaking Swiss writer, Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka. Confined to a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland, he used to write 'micrograms', (undecipherable short texts handwritten in a nano text-size) and take long walks. On the 25th of December 1956 he was found, dead of a heart attack, in a field of snow.

But he wanted to make sure she had privacy and wouldn't be grossed out by a primitive bathroom.

understanding is not the point. Feeling is the point. Understanding and experiencing are not interchangeable. Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.

Nobody told me he was an American. Not American—Canadian. Well, what's the difference? They're touchier, that's what.

Blackman looked beneath. Kristin could almost feel the nurse's gaze on her totally exposed crotch.

My God, you're like a med student. You hear of a new disease and five minutes later either you or the kids have it.

Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the strength to push her away.

mejores y más bellas cosas en el mundo no pueden verse, ni siquiera tocarse; deben sentirse con el corazón.

You could hear a mouse fart.

Amber has never been noted for its squeamishness," she said. "You have been exposed to too much American journalism.