Quotes About Sensitivity

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.

But there's another one who doesn't get frightened." "Which one is that?" "The one that doesn't talk—just looks and listens and feels what's going on inside.

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it." So I suppose he's very unhappy. So unhappy that he has to laugh like a hyena.

Karuna. Karuna." And a semitone lower, "Attention.

la condanna di quelli, molti, che non sono capaci di toccare senza far male [...]

Un giorno mi sono accorto che non m'importava più di nulla, e che tutto mi feriva a morte.

Ali on je bio od onih koji se najviše osjete kada nisu tu.

Tutti lo consideravano intelligentissimo, cosa che nella sensibilità comune equivaleva a considerarlo anemico, o daltonico: una malattia inoffensiva ed elegante.

Sia così gentile allora da dirgli che mi mancherà. Voglio dire che prima o poi smetterà di rompermi i coglioni ovunque io vada, e io proverò lo stesso sollievo che si prova quando in una stanza si spegne il motore del frigorifero, ma anche lo stesso sgomento inevitabile, e la sensazione, che lei certo conoscerà, di non essere sicuri di sapere cosa farsene di quell'improvviso silenzio, e forse di non esserne in fondo all'altezza.

Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.

Protestations of happiness could sound almost boasting to those whose happiness is incomplete. One did not boast of perfect skin to one affected by dermatitis; for the same reason, perhaps, one should take care in proclaiming one's happiness.

It is the onion, memory, that makes me cry," he said.

To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very much anymore, nor virtue perhaps because wisdom was nto appreciated in a world of glitz and effect.

The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out of bounds - interdicted by self-appointed guardians of sensitivity. There was somebody to be offended by everything, he though, which left little room for laughter.

If you are there to staunch the tears of the world, then it does not cross your mind that you yourself may weep.

Places had echoes- and if one were sensitive, one might just pick up some resonance from the past, some feeling for what had happened.

That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. We're allergic to raw onion.

He had gone through life tiptoeing round Irene's sensitivities, apologising for being who he was, and now it was over. There would be no more apologies. He was free.