38 Quotes About Sensibility

[...] for it was many days since she had any appetite, and many nights since she had really slept; and now, when her mind was no longer supported by the fever of suspense, the consequence of all this was felt in an aching head, a weakened stomach, and general nervous faintness. A glass of wine, which Elinor procured for her directly, made her more comfortable [...].

Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip.

No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.