Quotes About Sensitivity

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

Men can be tender, too.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

With pregnancy and nursing, the hormones mean your skin tends to be more sensitive to the light, so it's very important to use sun block every day.

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I'm bad at loud restaurants.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

I believe that, at times, if some of us are almost too critical of our society, it's because our sensitivity and our concern for justice makes us aware that our nation falls terribly short of its highest potential.